Big Brother’s Spying Eyes
Several senators have reintroduced a bill (defeated in 2020 after huge opposition) to turn the U.S. into a mass surveillance state like China.
Ostensibly designed to fish out CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) on the internet, The EARN IT (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies) Act, “doesn’t target Big Tech,” states Joe Mullin, a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “It targets every individual internet user, treating us all as potential criminals who deserve to have every single message, photograph and document scanned and checked against a government database.”