Lia Holland

Wanna experience one of the most bizarre and outrageous sagas from my time at @fightforthefuture.org (...so far)?

Read today's piece on @linkletter.org's absolutely legendary legal heroism against garbage surveillance company Proctorio.

Thank you for this story, @ashleybelanger.bsky.social

Reading the stats on how ICE is grabbing people in OR this week mostly by pulling over immigrants in cars, and shaking my fist at everyone who ever believed for a sec that surveillance = safety.

Democrats are preparing to sacrifice our ability to organize online for a hollow political victory, and this impending collapse of digital speech protections will cripple social movements at the very moment they are proving most effective.

READ NOW:
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Ever wonder what it would take as an organization to move away from Google?

Our Campaigns + Comms Director @liaholland.bsky.social shared a bit about our de-Googling journey w/Stupid Sexy Privacy pod. We've got recs!

The Journey Matters: resisting tech solutionism, building community, and rewriting narratives A conversation with Lia Holland exploring how storytelling opens space for meaning, equity, and imagination

Speculative Friction has a cool series and they just spoke with our colleague, activist + author @liaholland.bsky.social, about challenging tech solutionism, navigating surveillance capitalism in the creative industry + more. Check it out!

speculativefriction.substack.com/p/the-journe...

NEW: Our very own @liaholland.bsky.social digs in with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social about the political campaign against VPNs + how to fight back.

TOMORROW we’re hosting a VPN day of action to let global leaders know we won’t stand for a VPN ban. Join us!

Get the toolkit 👉 www.defendvpns.com

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"We want to make some noise" - Advocates are stepping in to defend VPNs, and they need your help Fight for the Future is calling everyone worldwide to join the Defend VPNs Day of Action on September 25

Today’s the VPN defense day of action! @fightforthefuture.org’s @liaholland.bsky.social tells @techradar.com: “ it’s important to make lawmakers aware that, if they come for this technology, they're gonna be facing an uphill battle against the whole internet."

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Listen if @fightforthefuture.org can spend the morning posting our VPN Day of Action across the entire Reddit porn community you can take 5 min to sign the dang thing and call your reps.

www.defendvpns.com

ICYMI: @liaholland.bsky.social , Campaigns + Communications Director at @fightforthefuture.org has some 🔥 updates for you this week:

📢VPN day of action announcement
✈️airline Data broker news
🎤Massive attack + the fight against facial recognition

Statement: Ted Cruz is really better than Democrats on the First Amendment? The following statement can be attributed to Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at digital rights organization Fight for the Future: As the Trump administration attempts to ...

“As the Trump administration attempts to silence left-coded orgs, Dems like @amyklobuchar.com line up to remove the Section 230 protections that everyone relies on to exercise their rights to speak + organize.” - @liaholland.bsky.social

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Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA.

Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/

I quit the post a few years ago, but now I regret that I ever gave them a dime.

The surveillance capitalist business model drives what's coming out of Silicone Valley and it is not going to be the solution for holding abusers accountable or community safety online.

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Let's have a renaissance of trans everything, please.

Over here enjoying some soft vibes from Astrud Gilberto and sipping my blueberry protein smoothie while preparing to slap art-washing genocide upside the face with @fightforthefuture.org

Without Encryption My Work Wouldn’t Be Possible Our work isn’t always popular. It can infuriate those in power who want to cover up incriminating truths about the past and current trends in state violence. So when I think about HRDAG’s threat model...

HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth.

Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.

hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...

It only took an hour, too. Should have done this long ago.

Goodbye Spotify, goodbye Goodreads.

(Hello Tidal, hello StoryGraph.)

Finally got my act together to yeet these complicities with genocide + exploiting artists and damn does it feel good.

This time last year I sat down with some pretty dark thoughts and a full novella gushed out of me in one giant bleed.

Anyway, it's coming out via Tor Nightfire on May 12.

You into infinite corridors, ancient hunger, isolation, cannibalism, self-loathing, etc.? Join me in the darkness next May.

So jazzed to be running around Seattle this week for @seattlein2025.org—the code switch between @fightforthefuture.org geekery+ Writers of Rohan geekery is gonna be like a strobe light.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Graphic with the caption ‘flawed internet let’ FOSTA SESTA seven years on in white font on a pink and purple background with a fight for the future logo in the bottom right on top of a black footer.

NEW: Our latest report examines the impact of flawed internet law, FOSTA-SESTA and how it has caused widespread harm for those at the intersection of sex work + other marginalized identities—especially LGBTQ+ individuals. Share widely! #BadInternetBills

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On days like this I feel bad for my colleagues dealing with my scatterbrain because I'm on one and I could write ALL DAY.

The code switch to fighting technofascism can be abrupt as hell.

Literally as we launch DefendVPNs.com the UK government starts threatening content advertising VPN services... www.gov.uk/government/n...

The real 🫖☕️ on the Tea app is that it was a privacy disaster from jump + a terrible idea... because of the data industrial complex and lack of federal privacy protections in the US.

@liaholland.bsky.social , Communications + Campaigns Director (and resident cat lady at Fight) breaks it down.

Just lurking the list and saw you're going to be there, it'd be fun to catch up! I have updates on that trees-and-missing-sister book ;)

Mic drop amicus from @lgbttech.bsky.social, very proud to have Fight joining in here to clap back at the disastrous age verification panic that's doing us all way more harm than good—and particularly harming queer kids.

Shveta you make that bookstore look even cuter!!

Me standing with my arms splayed and a huge grin in front of a wooden structure that looks kinda like a front porch with a shake roof and shelves for books.

A rustic wooden shelf full of out faced books with a circular chalkboard in front listing the day’s booksignings, and someone leaning out the store window at the edge

A crowd of people with cute hats and fairy wings in the foreground of a wooden outdoor bookstore stand with three smiling volunteers. The trees behind it and dirt path in front are bright green and dappled with sun.

I would like to nominate our bookstore at the #OregonCountryFair for a Cutest Ever Award. The best part: some handy book lovers decided to spend **days** making it look this good without our even asking, I just walked up and a butterfly shelf was going in!!