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Re:New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources by seph-reed on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:08PM (#23044185)
> The same New York Times investigation found that law enforcement agencies devoted to fighting online child exploitation “were left understaffed and underfunded, even as they were asked to handle far larger caseloads.” The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), established by Congress in 1984 to reduce child sexual exploitation and prevent child victimization, “was ill equipped for the expanding demands.” It’s worth asking, then, why EARN IT does not instead empower these agencies with additional resources to solve crimes.

This is a very striking point that I think even the least tech aware person could understand.

Also, the acronym EARN IT is marketing genius for the US. I can really easily see that convincing a lot of people of its validity just because it's kind of sassy/obstinate and for some reason Americans gobble things like that up. "You want encryption? Well why don't you EARN IT by not being a pedophile. - Karen 2020"

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Re:New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources by saagarjha on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:41PM (#23044569)
Bills often have these kinds of names. Don't want mass-scale surveillance? Guess you're not a PATRIOT.
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Re:New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources by snarf21 on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:03PM (#23044773)
Of course, it will also be trafficking or child porn or terrorism as the reason. We all know this is about surveillance unchecked.
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Re:New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources by 0xy on Friday May 01, 2020 @03:24PM (#23045577)
The EARN IT act is not really to prevent online child exploitation. It can't be. Because this act will push the people involved in those practices underground to places that cannot be censored like Tor.

In fact, the EARN IT act puts children directly in danger.

When evidence of child exploitation is pushed out of the regular internet, it becomes much harder to discover and prosecute.

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Re:New bill threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources by JoeSmithson on Saturday May 02, 2020 @08:56AM (#23051480)
Do you have any experience in investigating online child sexual offences?

I am just wondering what basis you are making claims like "the EARN IT act puts children directly in danger".

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