Want to pass a terrible law? Frame it as a protection for the extremely vulnerable, and then accuse anyone who opposes it as not wanting to protect the vulnerable.
Assuming this article is accurate, the proposed EARN IT act is really, really bad.
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Tbh, politics has been a series of false advertising and slander for longer than my parents have been alive, so it's quite likely going to be an issue of forcing politicians to break that habit one way or another.
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Confirming that the EARN IT act is awful. And Lindsey Graham has introduced another bill that's even worse just a week or so ago: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/t
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There is an even worse bill that forces everyone to have a backdoor on encrypted files for the US government.
You don’t need to trust the article. Go read it.
It is really, really bad.
And in typical Congress fashion, they try to hide it under the guise of fighting Child exploitation.
congress.gov/bill/116th-con
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Usually if the bill has a really cool sounding name or they push the "think of the children" narrative, vote no.
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