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It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation ^ | February 3, 2022 | Joe Mullin

Posted on 02/06/2022 10:46:17 AM PST by Wish2Post

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To: Wish2Post

Something like this just might, oh i dunno, getting somebody injected with a high speed piece of metal?


21 posted on 02/06/2022 11:17:18 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Wish2Post

Blue Menthol knows the law. He knows that it is illegal for the government to surveil messages, and JUST AS ILLEGAL for the government to pay a “private company” to do it.

The government can’t say that it doesn’t snoop in your checking account when it mandates that the banks snoop and report what the government tells it to report.

The government does not have the right to do this, but that won’t stop it - it never has. Think ECHELON.


22 posted on 02/06/2022 11:31:39 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: Wish2Post

But it’s all to keep us safe, so it must be good. Right? (s)


23 posted on 02/06/2022 11:37:54 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: Wish2Post

One would think they almost don’t trust the citizenry. Weird huh. And I see linda “shoot ‘em you got guns’ graham is right up in it. What’s the matter linda, constituents starting to get fed up with you? Finally?


24 posted on 02/06/2022 11:57:37 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Wish2Post

“Re-introduce” legislation? Heck it’s been in practice illegally for years


25 posted on 02/06/2022 12:17:47 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: livius; Wish2Post

The key words are “and for other purposes”. That gives them a blank check to do whatever they want and we know they intend to do a lot more. Definitely a “Not only no but h*** NO!”

I’m disgusted, though not at all surprised, to see Marsha Blackburn’s name on the co-sponsor list. I refused to vote for her because I knew what a RINO she is.


26 posted on 02/06/2022 12:21:54 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

What about Google? The information available from gmail and google searches could put an insider trader on easy street in a couple of weeks. The information available would make Pelosi look like an amateur.

How does Google keep their employees out of this data?


27 posted on 02/06/2022 12:52:56 PM PST by AlbertWang
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To: RBW in PA

Too late...
The time was 65-years ago...
There were still Americans with the strength & resolve...
They screwed up and did nothing...

Our best bet lies with Apophis in 2029, 2036, 2051, or 2068...
Otherwise, it appears more and more that Ronald Reagan was correct... (999 more years to endure communist tyranny)...


28 posted on 02/06/2022 1:11:24 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Wish2Post

“Little Lady Linda Lou Graham” is not a friend of conservatism nor our constitution.

I have more respect for Bernie Sanders. Bernie is a hard core socialist and does not pretend to be what he is not! Bernie is a proud Socialist, Lady Lindsey is a swamp creature pretending to be a constitutional conservative. He is far more dangerous than Bernie.


29 posted on 02/06/2022 1:18:31 PM PST by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST )
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To: Wish2Post

Flimsey Grahamnesty proves once again that the people of South Carolina are retarded.

They re-elected him TWICE after he voted for amnesty THREE times.


30 posted on 02/06/2022 1:42:21 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Wish2Post

FLG!


31 posted on 02/06/2022 1:45:49 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I believe they call that Fascism, where’s Antifa when you need them?


32 posted on 02/06/2022 1:48:02 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: VTenigma

They are probably supporting the bill.


33 posted on 02/06/2022 2:26:49 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Wish2Post

Under the guise of protecting children as the title suggests:

To establish a National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention, and for other purposes.

Link to text of bill:

S.3538 - EARN IT Act of 2022
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3538

The presenters of this garbage:

Mr. Graham, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Grassley, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Hawley, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Casey, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Collins, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Warner, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Ms. Murkowski, and Mr. Portman

The “and for other purposes” is the catch, as usual.


34 posted on 02/07/2022 6:43:17 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: upchuck
A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have re-introduced the EARN IT Act, an incredibly unpopular bill from 2020 that was dropped in the face of overwhelming opposition. Let’s be clear: the new EARN IT Act would pave the way for a massive new surveillance system, run by private companies, that would roll back some of the most important privacy and security features in technology used by people around the globe. It’s a framework for private actors to scan every message sent online and report violations to law enforcement. And it might not stop there. The EARN IT Act could ensure that anything hosted online—backups, websites, cloud photos, and more—is scanned.

Palmetto State ping, please.

35 posted on 02/07/2022 8:25:36 AM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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