Overview
Fight for the Future (FtF) is a US digital rights non-profit that organizes campaigns at the intersection of internet policy, civil liberties, and political power. Queer- and trans-led; current leadership includes Evan Greer (director, formerly deputy director). Operates the Bad Internet Bills Campaign hub (badinternetbills.com) and is the most consistently visible organizational opponent of KOSA, Section 230 sunset proposals, Age Verification mandates, and the EARN IT Act cluster.
Key Facts
- Coalition organizer behind 90+ org letter opposing KOSA in November 2022 (LGBTQ Youth Are Under Attack — Why Are Democrats Pushing a Bill That Hurts Them More)
- Operates badinternetbills.com — 472,000+ recorded actions as of April 2026 (Bad Internet Bills — Fight for the Future Campaign Hub)
- Authored or contributed to multiple op-eds across Vice, Vox, Teen Vogue, Them, and Tech Policy Press analyzing the contemporary internet bills cluster
- Identified by Sen. Richard Blumenthal as “a pawn of Big Tech” — a smear FtF describes as a particularly cynical attack on a queer-/trans-led group (Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?)
- Coordinates with fan-fiction communities (especially Archive of Our Own), Tumblr, and TikTok creator networks for grassroots mobilization
- Positioned alongside Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU as the core Section 230 / age-verification / KOSA defense coalition
Newsletter Relevance
FtF is the primary organizational character in the contemporary internet-bills story — every major source in this cluster either quotes them, is authored by them, or operates within the framework they helped build. Their three-vector framing (Section 230 sunset, age verification, KOSA) per Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? is the cleanest way to articulate the coordinated political project.
Connections
- Evan Greer — director; longtime public face
- Sara Philips / Sarah Philips — campaigner / digital rights organizer
- Anna Bonesteel — staff writer / op-ed author
- Janus Rose — co-author with Greer (Teen Vogue 2025)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation — coalition partner
- ACLU — coalition partner
- GLAAD / GLSEN / National Center for Transgender Equality — LGBTQ+ coalition partners
- Archive of Our Own — grassroots community ally
- Heritage Foundation — primary opposing think tank
Source Appearances
- Bad Internet Bills — Fight for the Future Campaign Hub — campaign owner
- LGBTQ Youth Are Under Attack — Why Are Democrats Pushing a Bill That Hurts Them More — Greer authored
- This Bill Threatens Access to LGBTQ+ Online Communities — Philips — Philips authored
- This Bill Purports to Protect Kids From Big Tech — Bonesteel — Bonesteel authored
- Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? — Greer/Rose/FtF authored
- Age Verification Is Locking Trans People Out of the Internet — Philips quoted
- Considering Age Verification and Impacts on LGBTQ+ Youth — Greer cited
- Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone — Greer interviewed
- Officials say social media is hurting teens — Scientists say it’s complicated — Greer quoted
- Congress is flooded with bills for childproofing the internet — Greer quoted
- President Biden’s executive action on children and the internet — referenced
Open Questions
- Funding model — heavily reliant on individual donations vs foundation grants? Affects how to read their political independence.
- Internal coalition tensions — how does FtF navigate disagreement with larger LGBTQ+ orgs (e.g., GLAAD’s earlier sit-out of KOSA opposition)?
- Tactical evolution — the move from policy briefs to fan-community mobilization is unusual and deserves its own piece.