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Lia Holland

@liaholland.bsky.social

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🌲🌲🏔🍄🌲🏳️‍🌈🧙‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🍪 new tech + privacy + creative rights @fightforthefuture.org | 🖋️rep @jwongbaxter.bsky.social | eat & make obsolete at the same time | they/she | opinions=mine

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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Jul 2

For the past year, I've been working with dozens of my most admired humans on the planet to put some new thoughts to think with out in the world.

Storytellers, may I present the uncensorable, decentralized Stop Surveillance Tech Copaganda Toolkit: stopcopaganda.compost.digital

A swirling orange, lava graphic that says: stop copaganda, surveillance tech copaganda tool kit, a new resource for storytellers to clap back at encroaching fascism. It features logos from Fight For The Future and compost magazine.

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 5d

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...

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

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 7d

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

Not A TikTok @notatiktok.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent interview @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. VPNs are our last line of defense against internet censorship. It was only a matter of time before the censors come after us.

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The Shocking Plan to Kill Online Privacy: A VPN Ban Will Break the Web

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 17d

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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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 16d

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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"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

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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 19d

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

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 22d

“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

www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-09...

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 ...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 21d

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/

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 26d

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

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · Sep 10

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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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Aw thanks @them.us for including AMAB/ACAB in this auspicious list!

"We're living through a renaissance of trans music." INDEED!

www.them.us/story/fall-2...

Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Human Rights Data Analysis Group @hrdag.org · Sep 3

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...

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...

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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

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Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

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

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.

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · Aug 7

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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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · Aug 6

NEW CAMPAIGN: “Age Verification” laws are accelerating the global discussion of banning or restricting VPN usage but this won’t make the internet a safer place!

Graphic with colorful images of surveillance cameras, a government building, a VPN image on a laptop and a fist on a black background with the caption ‘VPNS make it safer to use the internet- governments are trying to ban them: DefendVpns.Com

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · Jul 31

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.

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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Aug 5

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 ;)

Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

lgbttech.bsky.social @lgbttech.bsky.social · Jul 28

In filing this amicus brief, LGBT Tech was joined by @TheTrevorProject, @PFLAG Inc., @FightfortheFuture, @HackingtheWorkforce, and @BayAreaLawyers for Individual Freedom.

Read the brief and our blog post here:
www.lgbttech.org/post/lgbt-te...

LGBT Tech Files US Supreme Court Brief in Support of Free Speech

Earlier this week, LGBT Tech submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Netchoice v. Fitch, urging the Court to vacate the Fifth Circuit’s decision upholding a Mississippi law requiring…

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Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social · Jul 20

Shveta you make that bookstore look even cuter!!

Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · Jul 19

Me gesturing to my books on display outside said cute bookstore!

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