N things you can do today to fight bad internet bills in the US

Last updated August 1. If you've got suggestions for additional actions in these or other locations, please leave them as a comment!

Bad Internet Bills

Contact your Senators and tell them to say NO to KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the CHATBOT Act, and other bad internet bills that surveil and censor the net. badinternetbills.com, from Fight for the Future, is one easy alternative; Tips for contacting Congress about bad internet bills discusses others.

Share badinternetbills.com and other actions as well as news and analysis about bad internet bills on social media - and if you see others sharing stuff about bad internet bills, like it and reshare it so that more people see it.

Tag your Senators and Representative on social media and tell them to vote NO on KOSA, the KIDS Act, the SCREEN Act, the App Store Accountability Act, and other bad internet bills. You can find their accounts by searching for their name, or check their official web sites for a link to their accounts. And if you see other people tagging their legislators, like their posts to let them know you agree.

Find a way to track new actions and updates about bad internet bills that works well for you. If you're on social media, follow organizations like Fight for the Future and grassroots organizers like omarsbigsister -- or search hashtags like #KOSA and #KIDS Act. If you prefer email, many organizations let you sign up for action alerts.

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If you're in California

Stop California’s Social Media Ban (A.B. 1709), from EFF, makes it easy to tell state lesislators to say NO to a bad internet bill that would ban everyone under 16 from social media. This over-reaching censorship scheme threatens your data privacy, ignores the First Amendment, and wastes taxpayer money during a massive budget deficit. And, by overriding the judgment of parents, the California Legislature is trying to take parenting away from families and replace it with an overbroad ban and a costly (and shady) new government commission.

Stop California’s Social Media Ban (A.B. 1709)

If you're in Massachusetts

Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts, from Fight for the Future, lets you contact your state legislators to urge improvements as the state's social media regulation bill heads to final negotiations.

Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts