However, if the law passes it will only strengthen the interest in community-driven open source projects. To those who want to keep the internet a free and open place in America, there is still hope. This bill is being fast-tracked to shove it through both houses of Congress as quickly as possible, and I’m deeply afraid that this time it will succeed where its predecessor didn’t. The Earn IT act has been passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. This move will effectively kill their user base. And these apps depend on the networking effect to exist. You probably do not want to use an app that has a latency issue. Signal will have to remove its servers out of the US. These companies will force their users to comply with government regulations and company policies. Two of the largest American companies will comply with American law. To decrease latency for American users, Signal is hosted on Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure. However, let’s say for the sake of argument that Signal becomes a Swiss company like Protonmail. Just make Signal a non-American companyĪs an American company, Signal will have to comply with American law. As if these, tech corporations had the children’s best intention, to begin with. Where have we heard this before? For some reason, the federal government thinks that rescinding the responsibility of managing children’s safety from the parents and schools directly to these corporations is a good idea.
Some mother out there “Think about the of the poor children” It is all done in the name of protecting the children. This would in turn make it possible to make it illegal for any online service provider to provide true end-to-end encryption for their customers. The bill would, in effect, allow unaccountable commissioners to set best practices making it illegal for online service providers (for chat, email, cloud storage, etc.) to provide end-to-end encryption According to an analysis of the EARN IT Act from the Stanford Law School. After a constant back and forth it is finally back better than ever. The EARN IT Act has been trying to get passed in US congress since 2020.
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