They're Trying to Ban Posting About Abortion Online

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FREE SPEECH FRIDAY: EPISODE 1 // Proposed law bans posting or texting about abortion. A new proposed law in Texas (HB5510) aims to ban talking about abortion online. This means criminalizing speech about abortion in emails, text messages, social media posts, and on websites. Jennifer Pinsof senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non profit that fights for digital civil liberties, and she's been tracking the proposed law. She joined me on a new series that I'm launching this week called Free Speech Friday (which is coming out on Tuesday this week because Texas is voting on the law as soon as today lol). Free speech is under attack and across the country, state and federal lawmakers are passing sweeping, draconian censorship laws. The mainstream media is asleep at the wheel. They cheer on bad legislation and push moral panic narratives and manufactured outrage campaigns that are then used to justify stripping our civil liberties. I believe that the aggressive assault on free speech online is one of the most important issues of our time. So every week on Free Speech Friday I'll be talking to the people on the frontlines of the fight for free speech and expression online. This includes constitutional lawyers, digital rights activists, tech policy experts, and more. I'll be breaking down bad legislation, exposing the power players behind these attacks, and giving you ways to fight for the right to speak freely. Sorry the editing is a little bare bones on this one but I don't have money to pay someone to make fancy graphics and I don't make money on these videos yet! Thanks for bearing with me 💓 ***** Please buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!! 🙏 https://www.usermag.co ***** Jessica Valenti's piece on the law's other dangers that we mentioned in this episode is here: https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-sb-2880-abortion-travel If you’ve had your abortion-related content taken down, shadow-banned, or otherwise suppressed by Big Tech platforms, tell us your story here: https://www.eff.org/pages/stop-censoring-abortion Follow me: Subscribe to my newsletter: ⁠⁠https://www.usermag.co⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz3.0 https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz https://bsky.app/profile/taylorlorenz.bsky.social For more information on EFF’s work, visit EFF.org For digital security and privacy tips for those seeking or providing an abortion, visit https://www.eff.org/issues/reproductive-rights