Vote NO on EARN-IT

Vote NO on EARN-IT. Senator Graham has authored the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2019 — or EARN IT Act, for short — under the guise of protecting children from online exploitation. But in reality, this new legislation is just a thinly-veiled excuse to destroy privacy protections for everyday people. The EARN IT Act grants the Attorney General broad authority to force tech companies to do whatever he wants, and what Attorney General William Barr wants is no secret. For decades, he has demanded that tech companies weaken encryption by creating “digital backdoors” that grant law enforcement agencies access to our personal communications. That puts us all in danger. Considering what we've seen in the last three years -- CBP forcing people coming over the border to unlock their phones and allow CBP to check for "threats" against our government on social media, rampant abuses at the federal and local level by ICE, CBP, and local police, the incredibly suspicious deaths of the Black protestors that led the Ferguson protests, judges signing warrants without really investigating the situations leading to deaths like Brionna Taylor -- this is ABSOLUTELY NOT the time to provide our increasingly fascist executive branch with the power to break into our private conversations.