EmperorOfTrebizond

What are your thoughts on the significance of EARN IT to Signal in particular? Are there broader lessons to be learned?

My own sense is that this represents a case of the potential for policy to undermine technology when that technology is centralized, so a broader lesson would be "don't be centralized, who knows what the policy future holds." Do you agree with that? If EARN IT passes, will the EFF still recommend that supporters use Signal? (Would Signal moving out of the US help)?

That is a frustratingly evasive response.What does the EFF think?

Is the worry that the thought I articulated shifts the debate from whether this policy is passed to how do we make all such policies moot? The thought was that Signal, or any centralized service, could not continue to provide E2EE if it was in the US, since doing so would make it unable to meet the requirements of EARN-IT. The same is not true of distributed approaches, for which the law would be unenforceable.