Advocates at Odds Over Expected Earn It Act Vote
Pass the Earn It Act, more than 250 groups representing child exploitation and sex trafficking victims wrote Judiciary Committee leaders. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, National Children’s Alliance, National District Attorneys Association, U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, Rights4Girls and…
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Equality Now signed the Feb. 2 letter. S-3398 is scheduled for a Senate Judiciary Committee vote Thursday (see 2202030079). The bill doesn’t “undermine privacy initiatives or free speech or human rights,” despite Big Tech’s claims, the groups wrote. “Victims will finally have access to justice because EARN IT will allow them to use federal civil and state criminal and civil law to seek redress for harm suffered,” New America’s Open Technology Institute wrote in opposition to the bill. It incentivizes “providers to over-censor and suppress online speech, and [would] create encryption backdoors for law enforcement, undermining everyone’s cybersecurity,” OTI said.