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The EARN-IT Act Is Coming to Wreck the Internet

by Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin

July 10, 2020

issues: Online Content Policy, Technology and Innovation

originally published in The Stranger

From The Stranger:

It’s a doubling-down on the disastrous SESTA/FOSTA, passed in 2018 (with support, disappointingly, from Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray).

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