The EARN IT Act Is Back
Senators have reintroduced the EARN IT Act, requiring social media companies (among others) to administer a massive surveillance operation on their users:
A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have re-introduced the EARN IT Act, an incredibly unpopular bill from 2020 that was dropped in the face of overwhelming opposition. Let’s be clear: the new EARN IT Act would pave the way for a massive new surveillance system, run by private companies, that would roll back some of the most important privacy and security features in technology used by people around the globe. It’s a framework for private actors to scan every message sent online and report violations to law enforcement. And it might not stop there. The EARN IT Act could ensure that anything hosted online—backups, websites, cloud photos, and more—is scanned.
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Winter • February 4, 2022 10:04 AM
I always get the impression that Americans are not so much citizens, as subjects in the eyes of their “representatives”. However, that is not much different in other Anglo-Saxon countries, as well as in countries aligned with Russia and China.
In the eye of these politicians, the people are the enemy.