Response letter to Facebook from coalition representing 77 social and racial justice organizations, including Center for Media Justice, that urges changes to Facebook’s censorship policies and practices.
A coalition of organizations including Center for Media Justice, SumOfUs, Daily Kos, and Color of Change have led a public campaign to pressure Facebook into complying with demands designed to protect users from censorship. Facebook responded to the campaign with a letter in December 2016. Read the coalition’s latest response to Facebook here.
October 2016 letter to President Obama urging him to respond to a petition asking him to publicly affirm his support for strong encryption. The petition used the “We the People” platform and garnered more than 100,000 signatures in fewer than 30 days.
On September 22, the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) hosted a Media Justice Salon, SHOT ON CAMERA: Documenting the Police. While the police are being equipped with body- worn cameras to record the public, the public’s right to record the police is being contested. During the Salon, Nicole Carty from SumOfUs, Priscila Neru from Witness, Read more
The letter is a list of demands to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding concerns over Facebook’s use of censorship in compliance with law enforcement and other government agencies. The letter was signed by 77 organizations and individuals.
Posted with permission from the ACLU blog, Speak Freely Think about how it feels when you are driving down a road, look in your rearview mirror, and notice a police car driving directly behind you. You tense up. You slow down. You try not to drift too much in your lane as you drive. One Read more
The Relentless “Eye” – Local Surveillance: Its impact on human rights and its relationship to National and International surveillance A package of statements from some of the grassroots (and national) organizations struggling against local police surveillance abuses, including May First/People Link, MAG-Net, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Media Alliance, Generation Justice, Media Mobilizing Project, Champaign-Urbana Indymedia Read more
Key decisions that shape people’s lives—decisions about jobs, healthcare, housing, education, criminal justice and other key areas—are, more and more often, being made automatically by computers. As a result, a growing number of important conversations about civil rights, which focus on how these decisions are made, are also becoming discussions about how computer systems work. Read more
A diverse coalition of civil and human rights organizations, media justice advocates, and good government groups publicly released a core set of Civil Rights Principles for the Era of Big Data in February 2014. The Principles are intended to inform corporations, law enforcement, and state and federal policymakers about the critical impacts on civil rights Read more
2014 Knowledge Exchange Report from the Center for Media Justice & Consumers Union- Digital Discrimination: Big Data, Surveillance & Racial Justice. Participants grappled with the queston, what does it take to build a movement in the era of digital surveillance?