<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Is this something to pay attention to or confront?<div><br><div> <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The EARN IT Act, proposed by Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, would give the Department of Justice and attorney general Bill Barr unprecedented power over the Internet. It would create a 19 member panel of unelected officials, mostly law enforcement, who would impose a set of “best practices” that websites and online forums would have to follow, or they’d risk getting shut down.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1em 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;">This misguided legislation is reminiscent of deeply problematic bills like SOPA/PIPA and SESTA/FOSTA. The sponsors claim it’s about protecting children, but experts say it won’t do that at all, and instead will open the floodgates for Internet censorship and undermine encryption technology that keeps us all safe.</p><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 2, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Maryam Bakoshi <maryam.bakoshi@icann.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>