Sorry for missing yesterday. I had a rare good-brain day and got a lot done at work, and then the evening got away from me. I am only human. But today I have an easy action item!
One of the hills I will die on is the value of investigative journalism, freedom of the press--yes even though the mainstream media outlets are garbage--and the strength of information. It consumes a lot of my headspace. Well today I learned about an effort to pressure congress into passing H.R. 4250, the PRESS act. Forty-nine states and Washington D.C. have already passed state level journalism shields but it needs to be federal, and it needs to extend to the federal level. Right? If not now, when?
So, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (a trusted nonprofit boosting ethics in tech) has a nice and easy form to fill out. It finds your reps, provides some basic text (which it encourages you to change) and sends off the emails for you. It is worth doing. Through doing so, I also learned that the DuckDuckGo browser extension for Firefox will help you create essentially a masking email that forwards to your real one, so you can maybe avoid some of the inevitable political spam. Hopefully.
Anyway, it's a simple thing, and hopefully it passes. Be kind to your neighbor by being kind to your journalists. One might be the other, you know?
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