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The EARN IT Act continues to be pushed thru the US lawmaking gang. It wants to remove anti liability protections from platforms. It is also purportedly attempting to stop encryption.

But we must be vigilant - Professor Dan Bernstein delivered us some of the best cryptographic algorithms, amazing DNS software, unarguably the best email daemon and more, but he also delivered us a case law ruling that encryption is protected free speech[1].

Let’s not forget that. Our Bill of Rights is very strong. Thanks Professor Bernstein for proving that!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

Edit: Both Dr Matthew Green and Bruce Schneier are covering this topic as well [2].

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/the_earn-it_a...