Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

“You have to understand that Russia is not Putin. Tens of millions of Russians are against this criminal war. Many have relatives in Ukraine, and they feel their pain. This is a dark moment of our history, but the darkest moment always comes before dawn.”

My friend Dmitry Ivanov said these words, in English, to foreign journalists who came to the Moscow court where his trial was being held.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/dmitry-ivanov-sergei-smirnov-russia-ukraine-jailed/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social

#Moscow #Russia #Ukraine #War #Media #Journalism #Protest #Putin

🎉🎉Lawmakers in the House and Senate have officially re-introduced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2023, which would effectively ban law enforcement use of facial recognition in the United States. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-03-07-massive-coalition-throws-weight-behind-reintroduced-facial-recognition-ban-bill

Along with dozens of coalition partners and thousands of action takers, we've been calling on lawmakers to #BanFacialRecognition for years, because the tech is invasive, biased, and does more harm than good. https://banfacialrecognition.com/

There have been more stories of Black men being misidentified by facial recognition and wrongfully arrested. As 🐦SenMarkey says, these tools pose a personal threat to our civil liberties, a threat disproportionately felt by marginalized communities.

QT SenMarkey: In 2022, Alonzo Sawyer, a Black man from Maryland, was falsely identified and arrested for assaulting a bus driver and stealing her phone. He spent nine days in prison.

From police tracking protesters to TSA scanning faces of travelers in airports, the tech is spreading. We have to stop this now. Congress must pass the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act to put an end to this terrible technology.

Senate is currently holding a bipartisan hearing about how best to destroy the internet (not how it's framed, but that's what they're really trying to do). Incredibly frustrating how both Democrats and Republicans don't understand how what they're saying would destroy the open internet.