Fight for the Future

The finalized graph plot was linked in the show notes and can be found on Convergence's website for you to follow along.

Now, to help build this month's attention economy navigator, I am joined by the director at Fight for the Future, Evan Greer.

Evan, thank you for joining us today.

Yeah, thanks so much for having me on.

So before we dive in, Evan, yeah, it is spooky season.

There are some spooky things that we have in our stories for this month.

Well, before we dive in to graphing, Evan, could you tell our listeners a little bit about your work at Fight for the Future, what campaigns you're working on right now, and how you think about the ways that your work interacts with the attention it causes?

Yeah, for sure.

Opponents say the proposed law, the text of which has only recently become available, is overbroad, and as with much recent proposed internet regulation, is ripe for abuse and would serve to harm, really, only the already vulnerable.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Public Knowledge and others signed a letter to ISA which reads in part, small businesses and nonprofits face the greatest risks and have the fewest protections.

In Italy, overblocking has brought down digital infrastructure for hotels, car mechanics, retail shops, telehealth programs, and even a nunnery.

The ones bearing the cost of overblocking are the ones least poised to bear it and the ones who have no remedy for the days or weeks or more of lost business that results from an overzealous blocking order.