> Wrote to Dianne Feinstein of CA about being against Earn-IT act and got a letter back about how Earn IT act would prevent child sexual abuse material online.

> Wrote to Dianne Feinstein of CA about being against Earn-IT act and got a letter back about how Earn IT act would prevent child sexual abuse material online. Sigh. This is a decades-old response, along with terrorists, drug dealers, and organized crime: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp... Of course if people are willing to do one illegal activity (CP), what's to stop them from doing a second illegal activity (strong crypto) to protect themselves against detection of the first activity? We've been here before: if the US (or any other jurisdiction) limits strong crypto, it will simply be offshored: * https://wiki.debian.org/non-US https://wiki.debian.org/non-US If you're older than ~40 and were on the Internet in the 1990s, this probably isn't your first rodeo: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars