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A Senate bill, the EARN IT Act of 2020, introduced by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in March 2020, appears to revise regulations aimed at preventing online sexual exploitation of children by establishing a national commission to guide online service providers, such as Facebook and Twitter, in preventing child pornography and trafficking. However, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others reported, if the EARN IT Act becomes law, it would significantly undermine encryption of online messages, providing law enforcement agencies and government officials with legal access to online content. Although the bill does not use the term “encryption,” it would expose online service providers to “potentially crushing legal liability” if they refused to follow government officials’ orders to break encryption, Sophia Cope, Aaron Mackey, and Andrew Crocker reported for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Their report also highlighted how the EARN IT Act would violate constitutionally-protected rights to free speech and privacy.
The bill’s title—an acronym for Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies—refers to a legal shield that protects online service providers from liability for content posted by the users of their sites, which was established by Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The bill’s aim, according to its sponsors and supporters, is to make online service providers “earn” their immunity from liability claims over child sex abuse material.
But, as Riana Pfefferkorn wrote in a blog post for the Center for Internet and Society, the EARN IT Act is “a bait-and-switch,” a way to ban end-to-end encryption “without actually banning it.”
www.projectcensored.org
Here is the bill:
This is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org
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The bill’s title—an acronym for Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies—refers to a legal shield that protects online service providers from liability for content posted by the users of their sites, which was established by Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The bill’s aim, according to its sponsors and supporters, is to make online service providers “earn” their immunity from liability claims over child sex abuse material.
But, as Riana Pfefferkorn wrote in a blog post for the Center for Internet and Society, the EARN IT Act is “a bait-and-switch,” a way to ban end-to-end encryption “without actually banning it.”
Senate Bill Challenges Online Encryption, Constitutional Rights to Speech and Privacy
A Senate bill, the EARN IT Act of 2020, introduced by Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in March 2020, appears to revise regulations aimed
www.projectcensored.org
Here is the bill:
Text - S.3398 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): EARN IT Act of 2020
Text for S.3398 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): EARN IT Act of 2020
www.congress.gov
This is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EARN IT Act Violates the Constitution
Since senators introduced the EARN IT Act (S. 3398) in early March, EFF has called attention to the many ways in which the bill would be a disaster for Internet users’ free speech and security. We’ve explained how the EARN IT Act could be used to drastically undermine encryption. Although the...
I hadn't come across this before. What do you guys think about this?
