The residual Ron Paul in me is telling me we are trading one demon for another.
Until I see a Podesta, Brennan, Clapper, Hillary, Obama arrest.. I remain skeptical.
A BIG WIG ARREST NEEDED!
This does not look promising no matter what side of the fence you are on.
– The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the EARN IT bill sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., would spell the end of encryption online.
The bill's authors avoided the word "encryption," EFF noted, but they proposed "legislation that enables an all-out assault on encryption."
"It would create a 19-person commission that's completely controlled by the attorney general and law enforcement agencies. And, at the hearing, a vice-president at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children made it clear what he wants the best practices to be," EFF said.
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"NCMEC believes online services should be made to screen their messages for material that NCMEC considers abusive; use screening technology approved by NCMEC and law enforcement; report what they find in the messages to NCMEC; and be held legally responsible for the content of messages sent by others."
The objective appears to be "an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn't be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they'd lose legal protections that allow them to operate."
The proposal would provide for a removal of some legal protections, under Section 230 of federal law, for sites that don't follow the "best practices."
That would mean the sites "can be sued into bankruptcy," the report said.
"You can't have an Internet where messages are screened en masse, and also have end-to-end encryption any more than you can create backdoors that can only be used by the good guys. The two are mutually exclusive. Concepts like 'client-side scanning' aren't a clever route around this; such scanning is just another way to break end-to-end encryption. Either the message remains private to everyone but its recipients, or it's available to others," EFF warned.
https://www.wnd.com/2020/03/new-web-threat-government-plan-scan-online-messages/