Join us on tonight, Nov 12 at 7 - 9 PM ET on Chelsea’s Twitch channel

Come hang out while we play some games on Twitch with digital security expert and activist Chelsea Manning , Evan Greer of Fight of the Future, Janus Rose and Edward Ongweso Jr of Vice Motherboard, and Ernesto Falcon of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

We’ll be chatting about how the election results will impact the top digital rights battles of our time, from net neutrality to facial recognition to Section 230 to Big Tech and surveillance capitalism.

Come join us and feel free to ask anything in the chat!

The EARN IT Act is an unconstitutional attempt to undermine encryption services that protect our free speech and security online. It's bad. Really bad. The bill’s authors — Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) — say that the EARN IT Act will help fight child exploitation online, but in reality, this bill gives the Attorney General sweeping new powers to control the way tech companies collect and store data, verify user identities, and censor content. It's bad. Really bad.

Later this week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on whether or not the EARN IT Act will move forward in the legislative process. So we're asking EVERYONE on the Internet to call these key lawmakers today and urge them to reject the EARN IT Act before it's too late. To join this day of action, please:

1. Visit NoEarnItAct.org/call
2. Enter your phone number (it will not be saved or stored or shared with anyone)
3. When you are connected to a Senator’s office, encourage that Senator to reject the EARN IT Act
4. Press the * key on your phone to move on to the next lawmaker’s office

If you want to know more about this dangerous law, online privacy, or digital rights in general, check out our AMA.

Hi, everyone –

Every so often, we allow other Subs to promote themselves here. u/TheBrokenNB has created a new one, and asked us to do this for them, and we agreed. Enjoy!

Hello!

We wanted to let people know about a new sub, r/LateStageColonialism. It’s a Left-leaning sub for discussing the atrocities and continuing effects of colonialism and imperialism, both in regards to the past, and as they continue into today. It is also a place to discuss anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements.

r/NSALeaks readers might enjoy our Sub because US intelligence agencies have played a key role in imperialism, especially with regards to deposing leaders, as well as pursuing programs targeting nations in the global south in order to subjugate their people.

This sub exists as mostly a form of education and discussion because many people are truly unaware of the harms and atrocities of colonialism and how it is still extremely damaging today, and as a starting point to the concept of decolonisation. It is not meant as a debate sub.

Hope to see people there!

— u/TheBrokenNB and the r/LateStageColonialsim team

Hello!

We want to let you know that this weekend, starting now, we’re having an IAMA on r/Privacy!

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We are the team behind privacytools.io!. We’re also at r/privacytoolsio on Reddit. We've built a community to educate people from any technical background on the importance of privacy, and privacy-friendly alternatives. We evaluate and recommend the best technologies to keep you in control and your online lives private.

We've been busy. Lately, in addition to a complete site redesign, we've begun hosting decentralized, federated services that will ultimately encourage anyone to completely control their data online. We’ve started social media instances with Mastodon and WriteFreely, instant messaging instances with Matrix's open-source Synapse server, and technical projects like a Tor relay and IPFS gateway that will hopefully help with adoption of new, privacy-protecting protocols online.

This project encompasses the privacytools.io homepage, r/privacytoolsIO, forum.privacytools.io, blog.privacytools.io, and a variety of federated and decentralized services: Mastodon, Matrix, and WriteFreely, as well as technical projects like a Tor relay and IPFS gateway. Taken together, we’re running platforms benefiting thousands of daily users. We’re also constantly researching the best privacy-focused tools and services to recommend on our website, which receives millions of page-views monthly! All of the code we run is open-source and available on GitHub.

Sometimes our visitors wonder why it is that we choose one set of recommended applications over another, or why one was replaced with another. Or why we have strong preferences for some of our rules, such as a tool being FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software). With so many great options out there, sometimes recommending solutions gets reallyhard! Transparency is important to us, so we're here to explain how we go about making these sometimes difficult choices. But we’re also here to answer questions about how to redesign a site (which we just did - we hope you enjoy it!), or how distributed teams can work well across so many time zones with so many (great, really!) personalities, or answer any other questions you might have.

Really, it’s anything you've ever wanted to know about privacytools.io, but were too afraid to ask!

Who’s answering questions, in no particular order:

• /u/BurungHantu: Project founder and organizer
• /u/JonahAragon: Server administrator and community organizer
• /u/blacklight447-ptio: Community moderator and backup server administrator
• /u/Trai_Dep: Subreddit moderator, community activist
• /u/nitrohorse: Website contributor and developer
• /u/dawidpotocki_: Website developer
• /u/dng99: InfoSec expert and developer

>> We are the privacytools.io team members. Ask Us Anything! <<

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Hi everyone!

We are the team behind privacytools.io! We’re also at r/privacytoolsio on Reddit. We’ve built a community to educate people from any technical background on the importance of privacy, and privacy-friendly alternatives. We evaluate and recommend the best technologies to keep you in control and your online lives private.

We’ve done a lot of work on our website lately. We’ve added a bunch of new, privacy-embracing services. We’d like to let everyone know about our exciting changes! Most of our team will be part of this weekend IAMA to answer any questions that you have about… Well, anything related to the site, our new services, our selection process, anything. Really, it’s anything you’ve ever wanted to know about privacytools.io, but were too afraid to ask!

Date/time/place: Friday, October 25 ~10:00 AM, PST, thru Sunday, October 27. On r/Privacy!

Most of privacytools.io will be there for you. In no particular order:

• /u/BurungHantu: Project founder and organizer

• /u/JonahAragon: Server administrator and community organizer

• /u/blacklight447-ptio: Community moderator and backup server administrator

• /u/Trai_Dep: Subreddit moderator

• /u/Ciblia (aka Mikaela): Github issue huntress / house cat (tentative)

• /u/nitrohorse: Website contributor and developer

• /u/dawidpotocki_: Website developer

We are the privacytools.io team. Ask Us Anything (starting on October 25th at r/Privacy)!