Encryption is good.
The EARN IT act is bad.
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@lilyhnewman has a good recent writeup at@WIRED.https://www.wired.com/story/earn-it-act-sneak-attack-on-encryption/ …1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread -
> Child predators "communicate using virtually unbreakable encryption," US attorney general William Barr said during the press conference [...] EARN IT focuses specifically on Section 230, which has historically given tech companies freedom to expand with minimal liability [...]
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> Under EARN IT, those companies wouldn't automatically have a liability exemption for activity and content related to child sexual exploitation. Instead, companies would have to "earn" the protection by showing that they are following recommendations [...]
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>This would put them in the position of either having to accept liability, undermine the protection of end-to-end encryption by adding a backdoor for law enforcement access, or avoid end-to-end encryption altogether.
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