EARN-IT = Fucking YUGE!!!
The legislation sets up the U.S. government as the arbiter of all communications and conversations that happen on the internet
Free Press Action Senior Policy Counsel Gaurav Laroia made the following statement:
“The EARN IT Act is constitutionally suspect. It threatens key First and Fourth Amendment rights while failing to specify how it could or would administer the tests online entities need to pass to preserve those rights for themselves and their users.
“The drafters of this bill obviously want to address some real harms, yet their solutions could radically change the way we communicate online. The legislation sets up the U.S. government as the arbiter of all communications and conversations that happen on the internet — a terrible idea in any instance, and a truly terrifying one when the person driving this effort and seeking this power is none other than Donald Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr.
https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/misguided-earn-it-act-earns-free-press-actions-opposition