Lindsey Graham's Terrible Anti-Privacy 'EARN IT' Act Passes Senate Committee https://reason.com/2020/07/02/lindsey-grahams-terrible-anti-privacy-earn-it-act-passes-senate-committee

Bad news for freedom lovers as we approach Independence Day weekend: A bill compromising online speech and privacy just passed unanimously in the Senate's Judiciary Committee.

The "Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies [EARN IT] Act of 2020" purports to fight the spread of child pornography online. Page after page of the bill references child pornography and online child sexual exploitation as its reason for existence.

But what it actually does is create a federal commission that devises "best practices" policies that tech companies must follow if they wish to claim the protections of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that generally protects platforms from liability for content posted by users.