The EFF's position against the EARN IT Act is in the best interests of people in the U.S. and of people who use U.S. technology services in any country. Nobody

The EFF's position against the EARN IT Act is in the best interests of people in the U.S. and of people who use U.S. technology services in any country. Nobody needs to undermine end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to investigate anything, including speech. Surveillance is becoming more common, but that does not justify the elimination of E2EE. If the government already has access to plenty of data through surveillance, there is no reason that the government should violate its citizens' privacy even further by preventing citizens from having legal access to E2EE. I agree that laws should protect individual rights and freedoms, and I recognize the use of E2EE as one of those freedoms. Trust in government is no substitute for E2EE, which also protects the communications of users from being intercepted by people outside of their own government.