While we're all focused on the Corona crisis the US government is quietly pushing an internet #surveillance bill that is aimed at abolishing message encryption:
We should probably pay attention to this and spread awareness even if we are not American: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online
uspol; surveillance
Glad EFF has been keeping an eye out. They do good work.
@polychrome I guess its time to implement stegonography ?
@polychrome didn't Matt Blaze explain to them that you can't ban math like 300 times now
@ben they trust science to figure it out 
@polychrome thank you for posting!
@polychrome Here's a link to my CW'd variant if people want to boost that 🙂
I use Protonmail. Everything is encrypted, whether they like it or not. Barring that, I'll go back to PGP. Barring that, I'll stop using the Internet except in ways that cannot be tied to my identity. This can always be done.
This may be a useful tool to contact your member of #congress.
FYI It does use Google Analytics and Amazon Web Services.
@theprivacyfoundation I don't have a member of Congress.
I am not American.
@polychrome ...for those that are...
@polychrome Since the global "tech giants" are American, this certainly does affect us. And the secure, "Signal private messenger" is based in the US, too. Like many things. Just saying. 🤷♀️