The American people, across the political spectrum, have spoken, and we want net neutrality -- but that doesn't stop our nominal representatives in Congress from trying to kill it. Not that they have the cojones to come out and say they're trying to kill it; normally they just try to defund the FCC, or demand more "study" on matters they've had over a dozen years to study. But it really is sobering, contemplating the message behind their attempts to kill internet freedom. Our Congressfolk apparently believe that the only kind of freedom that matters is freedom for corporations to herd you into some junk-news corner of the internet -- rather than your freedom to go where you want to go on the internet, unfettered by the gnarled hand of corporate gatekeepers. It gets tiring, speaking out to defend the victories we've already won -- but freedom is never cheap, nor do its enemies ever stop trying to destroy it. Hence both Free Press and the Electronic Freedom Foundation help you tell your Congressfolk to stop attacking internet freedom. Be sure to remind them you're not going away, either.
Meanwhile, H.R. 5571/S. 2566, the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, would help rape survivors get the justice they deserve. We all just watched the Stanford swimmer get a mere six months for a dumpster rape that two other men stopped from being much worse, but any sexual assault survivor will tell you that even getting a rape conviction is almost astronomically difficult. But the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act would help reduce the possibility that rapists will go free, by ensuring that law enforcement entities store rape kits until after statutes of limitations expire, test rape kits without charging the victims for them, inform victims of medical information from their own rape kit unless it compromises an active investigation, and give victims at least 30 days' notification before destroying the rape kit. The bill would do other things as well, but the rape kit is, basically, where all the evidence is, and if that's gone, so's any chance of justice. So CREDO helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, and thus help reduce sexual assault in America.
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