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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by iamstupidsimple on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:39PM (#30227029)
> Telling the govt "too bad, you can't stop math" will backfire. The law can be used to force tech companies to literally stop doing math at scale.

There is no practical scenario where those who want to use e2e will not have that capability. Even if technology companies are totally banned from producing it domestically, it's trivial for foreign companies to provide the e2e software and supply it over the internet.

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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by bbarnett on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:44PM (#30227067)
Until that becomes illegal. After all, torrent indexes are illegal, and they aren't directly pirating anything.

Thus, supporting an end around, can be attacked as well..

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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by plorkyeran on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:39PM (#30228001)
Torrent indexes are illegal, and yet a lot of them exist very publicly. Pushing e2e encryption into the same category as them does not seem very effective.
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Re:The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever by bbarnett on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:16PM (#30228260)
The goal is to reduce common usage ; to make all which use encryption a criminal.
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