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TL;DR: Graham (R-South Carolina), Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Hawley (R-Missouri) Dianne Feinstein (D-China) introducing a bill that adds sweeping powers over tech companies to regulate content online and mandate state backdoors.

What do you think about this regulation? They say it is to stop 'child exploitation', but the regulation seems to basically mandate government backdoors into any messaging platform. I don't see how giving the state such sweeping powers to remove all end-to-end encryption is justified in the hopes of reducing images of child exploitation on a handfull of private chats / websites.

That and Feinstein (D-China) and Blumenthal working on it also raises several big red flags. Since Trump has the senate, is there not more we should be doing to prevent this from flying under the radar with the whole COVID-19 memes, or do more people actually agree with this legislation?

Link for those who want to know more (watch out it is quite biased since it is from the judiciary committee which introduced the bill): https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-blumenthal-hawley-feinstein-introduce-earn-it-act-to-encourage-tech-industry-to-take-online-child-sexual-exploitation-seriously