Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act

Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by trevoristall on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:30PM (#30296550)

> I really wish politicians would embrace a "we will make policies for things we can understand" motto.

I don't think they'd make many policies if that were the case

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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by ekianjo on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:57AM (#30297957)

> I don't think they'd make many policies if that were the case

That would be progress.

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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by mhh__ on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:01PM (#30296783)

It would potentially mean a huge backlog of boring but basically uncontroversial technical legislation, most likely.

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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by DamnYuppie on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:44PM (#30296646)

that isn't a bad thing.

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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by trevoristall on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:50PM (#30296700)

I'm inclined to agree, though I feel they're already pretty hands-off for most things that don't have corporate interest or overreaching power driving them.

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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by BiteCode_dev on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:38AM (#30299764)

That's assuming policies are made for the good of society, and not the good of the policy makers.

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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by xmprt on Friday February 11, 2022 @03:15AM (#30298573)

It doesn't seem like many policies are being made in the first place.

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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act by zeruch on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:10PM (#30296845)

That could be a feature or a bug I suppose.

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