[ICANN Community Leaders] 2 July 2020

[Brian Drolet]

Is this something to pay attention to or confront?

 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. 
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.


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> On Jul 2, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Maryam Bakoshi <maryam.bakoshi at icann.org> wrote:
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