The title of this post is the name of a Senate Bill offered this congressional session. It's been proposed in the past, but now it's got a significant bi-partisan support. The short description is that it would more or less order tech companies to monitor all traffic, and report certain things. The ostensible excuse is to catch child porn and terrorist planning. We don't know how this will work against encryption schemes; that's not clear just yet. We know only that it will. However, we know that Big tech is very eager to snoop.
Right now, there is a mishmash of legal precedent suggesting that it's technically illegal for Big Tech to snoop too much. If you understand the snooping already being done by Big Tech, you realize this proposed law is only an incremental change in things. It simply adds the force of law so that Big Tech can blame regulation. However, it does mean that there will be zero legal safeguards.
It would put the US at odds with the EU on many things. People who understand this better than I do suggest it will result in a regulatory fracturing of the Internet. It will force a more conscious recognition that there is a different law for different parts of the West, never mind how some non-Western nations already do things. The trend has been there for quite sometime. We already have completely different rules for China, increasingly different rules for Russia, and now the US and EU will have their own regional firewalls. I'm not sure how this will turn out in practice, but it will tend to fracture the formerly "borderless" nature of the Internet.
Of course, this is only a proposed bill. However, the congressional atmosphere makes me think it will go forward unless some heavyweight blocks it. Then again, I have to wonder how much of this is a "false-flag" attack of sorts. Maybe they are pushing it this way to get folks upset enough to embrace a globalist regime to bring some fake relief.
Edit: Here's a convenient link to read about it -- It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
Right now, there is a mishmash of legal precedent suggesting that it's technically illegal for Big Tech to snoop too much. If you understand the snooping already being done by Big Tech, you realize this proposed law is only an incremental change in things. It simply adds the force of law so that Big Tech can blame regulation. However, it does mean that there will be zero legal safeguards.
It would put the US at odds with the EU on many things. People who understand this better than I do suggest it will result in a regulatory fracturing of the Internet. It will force a more conscious recognition that there is a different law for different parts of the West, never mind how some non-Western nations already do things. The trend has been there for quite sometime. We already have completely different rules for China, increasingly different rules for Russia, and now the US and EU will have their own regional firewalls. I'm not sure how this will turn out in practice, but it will tend to fracture the formerly "borderless" nature of the Internet.
Of course, this is only a proposed bill. However, the congressional atmosphere makes me think it will go forward unless some heavyweight blocks it. Then again, I have to wonder how much of this is a "false-flag" attack of sorts. Maybe they are pushing it this way to get folks upset enough to embrace a globalist regime to bring some fake relief.
Edit: Here's a convenient link to read about it -- It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages