WHAT IS THE EARNIT ACT of 2022, AND WHAT DOES IT DO?

It's an online censorship and mass surveillance act that was introduced 2 years ago by Senator Blumenthal and Graham, and is supposedly about protecting children online dealing with material that is deemed “unsafe for children”. But various online privacy groups and human rights groups such as the ACLU and Fight For the Future have noted that it not only doesn't protect children, it actually makes them LESS safe while being heavily aimed at attacking encryption. This was bad enough at the time in 2020 that it was fiercely rejected and was essentially shelved. But now it’s been re-introduced, and as far as we can tell, Most of the changes were extremely minor at best, with the core problems of the bill pretty much being exactly the same as it was back in 2020. No doubt hoping to take advantage of people's complacency and other current hot topics as a distraction to push it through under the radar.

And it’s being fast-tracked through the Senate as of February 2022. We don’t know how long it’ll be until it reaches the Senate Floor, but if it does, the internet as we know it could basically cease to exist. Freedom of speech will be greatly crippled, information can be silenced and censored on a whim.

Further information in this Forum Post Here.

TAKE ACTION:

1. TEXT SIGN PBRFKY or PVLKLV To 50409 (Messaging, it's not a phone number) to send an automated message to your representative to vote NO For EARNIT.
2. Spread the Word online! Link to the various petitions and other info-dense articles about this Act below!
3. Also the Twitter Hashtags: #EARNITAct, #STOPTheEARNITAct2022, #NoEarnItAct
4. But also effective is to contact your Senators directly.
5. You Can Also Freely Fax the Call Script (with personalizations if needed) using this link: https://faxzero.com/

Call Script For Contacting Senators: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1huD5Ldd1lPTECYTEb9Gg2ZzrqW6Y9tryHT-MdjOl8kY/edit 

PETITIONS: 

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

https://www.noearnitact.org/

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/oppose-earn-it-act/

LINKS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH INFORMATION:

EARN IT MegaPost: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xcjeKqml8QbqiaTfDiciMQ5AnjxoVHh6T6sAMM5D2EU/edit 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/its-back-senators-want-earn-it-bill-scan-all-online-messages

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/if-earn-it-passes-what-happens-your-iphone-wont-stay-your-iphone

https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/unintended-consequences-of-the-earn-it-act/

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/activists-warn-earn-it-act-hurt-lgbtq-communities-most

https://www.article19.org/resources/us-senate-must-drop-the-earn-it-act/

https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr/status/1491094890805358592

https://www.internetsociety.org/news/statements/2022/internet-society-statement-on-earn-it-act-2022/

Medium Article: How the EARNIT Act Hurts Kids