Oversight

A New Bill Attacks What May Be the Most Important Law on the Internet

The EARN IT Act would give the DOJ even more power to censor the internet

Trevor Timm
GEN
Published in
4 min readMar 12, 2020

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WeWe already know the Trump administration, led by Attorney General William Barr, wants to find a way to ban end-to-end encryption — a vital security protection used by millions of…

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Trevor Timm
GEN
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Trevor Timm is the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. His writing has appeared the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Intercept.