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Here's how EFF desribes the situation in You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills

"Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress.We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—possibly into must-pass legislation. I’m asking you to join us, ACLU, Fight for the Future, and other digital rights defenders in a week of action to protect the internet."

Can the fediverse help? The fediverse has some potential advantages for activism on topics like privacy, digital rights, and LGBTQIA2S+ issues. So it’s worth experimenting, and the July 20-28 week of action on Bad Internet Bills is a great opportunity – to learn, and hopefully to have an impact as well.

Here's four easy ways to help:

  1. Upvote and boost posts in !bad_internet_bills@lemmy.sdf.org -- and cross-post them to other communities and magazines where they're on-topic
  2. On Mastodon, boost posts on the #BadInternetBills and #KOSA hashtags
  3. Get the word out on other social networks too
  4. If you live in the US, contact your legislators using Fight for the Future’s https://www.badinternetbills.com/
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[–] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Wtf is a "LGBTQIA2S+"?

WHY DOES A FUCKING ACRONYM NEED TO GET LONGER AND LONGER?!? WHY?

[–] db2@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

I think the A is for asexual.. like why tf would someone not interested in sexuality care. At a certain point it's just someone wanting attention and I think we passed it a few characters ago. Before you, gentle reader, get upset see it for yourself.. these come from Google search, obvious joke ones were ignored:

LGBT
LGBTQ
LGBTQ+ <- this is literally all inclusive, no need to go further
LGBTQ2 ("two spirit".. aka furries)
LGBTQIA+ (longest "official" acronym)
LGBTQIA2S+
LGBTQIAAP+
LGBTQIAGNC
LGBTQQIP2SAA
LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA+

If that doesn't make it obvious I'll leave you with a quote from Peter Tatchell:

It’s great to be inclusive, but the new alphabet soup is a confusing and alienating mess — made even worse when people get into spats over missing initials or the inclusion of initials they disagree with. The longest I’ve ever seen is LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA. This is absurd. It makes us a laughing stock and devalues serious issues around sexuality and gender.

[–] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yo just so you know two spirit has nothing to do with furries. It usually refers to gender nonconforming traditions in indigenous american communities and has largely come into favor in Canada as part of recent campaigns to recognize tribal communities and their histories. These movements have obviously existed for a long time but the revelations about atrocities committed at residential schools seems to have really pushed them into the mainstream.

Otherwise, I think you're thinking of "otherkin" who are not generally included under the LGBTQ umbrella, but are frequently brought up to discredit queer progress as a movement.

[–] db2@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

edit: this wasn't an intended reply, I was just reading and suddenly here this comment was blank 🤷 didn't want to leave it blank or delete it so it says "deleted by creator" and then everyone wonders why

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