Posted on 02/06/2022 10:46:17 AM PST by Wish2Post
People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages —not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have reached is the U.S. Senate.
A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have re-introduced the EARN IT Act, an incredibly unpopular bill from 2020 that was dropped in the face of overwhelming opposition. Let’s be clear: the new EARN IT Act would pave the way for a massive new surveillance system, run by private companies, that would roll back some of the most important privacy and security features in technology used by people around the globe. It’s a framework for private actors to scan every message sent online and report violations to law enforcement. And it might not stop there. The EARN IT Act could ensure that anything hosted online—backups, websites, cloud photos, and more—is scanned.
S.3538 - EARN IT Act of 2022 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3538
(Excerpt) Read more at eff.org ...
Think it’s time to fight for real yet?
His return is coming soon!
It’s a 100% bad.
And it seems pretty predictable to me that if any supporter of a non-Democrat cause were to gather in Washington for some demonstration, then that “insurrectionist” would have all of their correspondence immediately laid bare and published in an unflattering light.
But, on the other hand, if some proper court were to request details of the communications of, say, Hunter Biden ... well, [shrug] ... sadly, those items seem to have been misplaced. Nowhere to be found.
Facebook already scans every private message.
Let me guess. The justification to spy is CP and terrorism.
NOPE.
Not allowed.
Has Linda Graham responded yet about when Trump called him out for being a RINO?
Imagine the NSA does too, but it is probably still illegal to admit it, let alone execute police enforcement based on a private message. It is still important that we keep snooping on private messages illegal even if they secretly do.
The concept of private communications has been greatly exaggerated.
I am glad that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is publicizing this.
I am counting on Senator Rand Paul to stop it.
Violating the First Amendment by letting private business do the dirty work. Not the first time, of course. As far as I am concerned, every effort to erode the First Amendment is another step toward voiding the contract between the government and the people. (Do you think "they" are reading this message? Let them. Live Free or Die!)
Lindsay:::::knucklehead
This theoretically attacks child sexual abuse and Internet porn using children…it’s like when people used to take their photos to be developed and the store could report them if the photos showed child abuse.
I know people who have worked in the investigation of cybercrimes against minors - which ranges from grooming to sending dick pix to torture and snuff pictures - and the reach of this is horrifying.
So in theory this is not a bad thing. But the problem is that once you give the government the power to do this, it never stops there.
In fact, it never even stops at crime, and becomes political at once and then the state can legally pursue its enemies - who have nothing to do with child abuse.
I’d say a big thumbs down. It’s like the “War on Terror” and the TSA, which theoretically were supposed to protect us from attacks by Muslim terrorists but immediately turned into domestic surveillance of political enemies and now, with the TSA, into enforcement of unconstitutional government “mandates.”
So I’d say it’s a no, regardless of how well intentioned.
My thinking nowadays is to protest/dox the Swamp types at their homes. Just don't involve their children and obey local laws. If this were to happen on a daily basis, it would have more impact than any large gathering on the Mall in DC or State Capitols, which is always ignored. Take our fight home to them.
It's fair since they intrude on our lives with almost every socialist law they pass.
But it will keep us safe from the terrorists! You don’t want the terrorists to WIN, do you? /s
Impactful!
By public good, leftists mean, single party state, with themselves in control, and you lot just stfu.
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Sounds like they just want to let the NSA program doing this come out into the open.
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