We have already witnessed the partisan bias of Big-Tech and the Earn It Act will essentially empower Big Tech to become the right arm of Big Brother. On the surface it claims to be all about protecting children, which is a justifiable reason for legislation, but this bill is NOT the solution we need or want. Big Tech can not be trusted and this Act is nothing more than the government becoming better bedfellows with the sites and apps that everyone uses to communicate. It puts the onus on the Internet service providers to do everything in their power to prevent the exchange and distribution of child porn, renamed (CSAM) Child Sexual Abuse Material. In doing so Big Tech is being given authority to access your private online activities and interactions. Their unbounded license to ignore privacy laws is actually proposed as a contingency to remaining protected from their own prosecution as a publisher.

If the Earn It Act were nothing more than a quid pro quo agreement to stamp out child porn, its opposition would fall on deaf ears, but so much more is at play. First, we can not rely on Big Tech to use this access uniquely for the prevention of CSAM; they have a history of overstepping their authority. But worse, the bill suggests that law enforcement (Big Brother’s left hook), have a built in backdoor access to all communication. All fully encrypted sites, apps, sources would have to write into their main program a means of accessing all data, and provide this access to law enforcement. making everyone open to scrutiny, robbing people of their privacy and freedom to communicate.

The Earn It Act also will do nothing to protect the child exploitation that occurs outside of the Internet. Relatives and teacher’s who abuse their position are not likely to be stupid enough to be distributing CSAM over the Internet. Not to mention that recent criminal cases involving Jeffery Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell, have surely shed light on the fact that the rich and powerful don’t need the internet to fuel their lustful exploitation of children.

Indeed, with the Earn It Act and its focus on CSAM, the government is willfully avoiding giving resources to the many other ways children are exploited. Is it by design that these rich and powerful lawmakers are holding themselves out as protectors of the innocent when their ACT actually enables other child exploitation by diverting resources? Or is it really,more insidious, like so many recent government power expansions, and not actually about protecting any children at all, but rather to be used to backdoor spying on every citizen who uses an app or the internet to exchange information with anyone? The government is guilty of an abuse of powers, putting constitutional rights on hold for mandates they themselves often ignored. How much worse could this get when private conversations are no longer private ? Imagine if someone’s angry venting is used against them for a conviction of hate crimes, or sedition ?

We have been witness to the abuse of the power of tech and media companies who control the narrative and cancel or vilify anyone with a counter opinion. Can we trust these companies, who abuse their power in relation to public commentary, with sanctioned access to our private interactions? If the Earn It Act is passed by the power hungry bureaucrats who fear non-compliance from their citizens, how long until the once highly encrypted protections on banking and other sensitive data can be easily hacked because of built in access points? And then with the movement away from real cash to digital currencies; how long before your life savings disappear?

There is a better alternative to protect kids

Unfortunately, the Earn It Act is just another bureaucratic nightmare, proposing a 19 member panel of The Attorney General, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and someone from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), with 16 additional politician appointed “experts” in child exploitation, consumer protections, and computer security. Better to adopt the alternative proposal the Invest in Child Safety Act which would focus on empowering, and funding law enforcement specifically to Enforce and Protect Against Child Sexual Exploitation. This would be headed by people with a proven background (experience) in prosecuting and investigating these crimes. The idea is to literally invest in the current organizations that are in the business of protecting children and going after their assailants. The groups involved would be focused on protecting children. addressing missing children, street kids, as well as helping identified victims. It wouldn’t overlook the Internet problem either, with a two fold attack proposed to go after CSAM. First $15 Million, and more jobs are proposed for the technologically competent engineers and analysts who weed through technology company leads on CSAM content discovered online, And another $60 Million for an Internet Crimes task force to hunt down and bring in the perpetrators. Obviously the Invest in Child Safety Act is a superior proposal for protecting children and our rights….but are you going to do anything to stop the Earn It Act from being the one that is implemented?

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Morgan Freeman said that the way to stop racism was to stop talking about racism. Now there are lots of good reasons why we’re programed to be suspicious and fearful of different people. Humanity is a species that competes for food, to procreate, etc. Whoever, is different is unknown and the unknown might be a threat, therefore our evolutionary tendency is to hate what we fear. Add our 2nd tendency which is to be selfishly self-serving and we have the perfect manipulable social mix. A fearful populace calling out for a hero and it’s self-serving leaders that are empowered by social ignorance. Henceforth, the reason we need to stop talking about racism is because we’re helping government to create it and profit from it.

Either intellectually or emotionally it’s difficult to be a fan of any government in this world. The city of Nineveh was founded in 6000 BC, in Mesopotamia; that means government has had approximately 8k years to solve our social problems, including racism, and it has repeatedly failed. We must ask, if there were a workable government solution to racism, wouldn’t it have been implemented by now? If roughly 8,000 years hasn’t been enough to fix the problem then maybe we need to stop talking about racism and focus on why government has never been the solution.

Godwin’s law says that any online debate will eventually justify it’s arguments with analogies to Nazi Germany. But the fact is that the overwhelming vast majority of people don’t really care about their neighbor’s race or ethnicity. All anyone really wants is a safe and quiet place to live with hopefully occasional polite conversation. Leading up to world war 2 the Nazi government delivered a message of mistrust and hatred, with the German people either complying or willingly participating in industrial scale atrocities that murdered 11 million people. We need to stop talking about racism because it’s decisive. History has shown that the individuals who comprise our governmental bodies can easily maintain control despite inadequacies if they push an us versus them agenda . Unfortunately, the general public only stops complying and empowering a regime when the inhuman horrors become common knowledge.

My childhood was spent growing up in a gutter.

Gutters are areas located behind heavy industrial factories where alcoholism and domestic abuse are considered normal. I used to think that ghettos were somehow better because they had government programs and handouts for people who lived in them. Whereas we weren’t even acknowledged because gutters are few and its people were difficult to categorize as one distinguishable group. We need to stop talking about racism because it’s an exploitation problem. Both gutters and ghettos are rotten places to live, but as we shifted from a production based economy to a service based one, the gutters have disappeared. The problems never went away; they just moved to a new location.

Our governments will never put an end to ghettos because they benefit far too much from them. They tell the citizenry that it’s because of someone’s skin color or ethnicity that these areas exist, but the reality is that the majority of people that who live in a ghetto are there because of addictions, lack of intelligence and /or they’ve embraced a culture of defeatism and these factors hit all races. Ghettos have become both generational and a form of soft eugenics. We need to stop talking about racism and start talking about things like; Why is junk food is so popular among the poor? Why there is a reluctance to establish community watch programs? Why are there so many fatherless children? Or conversely, why do so many women willingly have unprotected sex with men they know won’t stick around?

Junk food is cheap and it leads to obesity, self-esteem problems and even lower intelligence because of malnutrition and difficulties concentrating. The solution to crime is individuals patrolling their neighborhoods and the solution to fatherless children is empowering men when they’re still little boys and teaching them to be responsible for their actions. Overall, the best way to get people out of a ghetto is the same way to get people born in a gutter out and that’s with easy access to apprenticeship programs in the trades. And that’s by waiting to get married to have children. We need to stop taking about racism because it breeds victim-hood mentalities and makes people dependent upon those who exploit them. Unfortunately though government is all about GDP and protecting corporate profits.

The ghetto creates an area full of boogie-men that they can use to terrify the voting public. It also justifies the salaries of the medical industry, as obese people, drug addicts and crime victims require treatment, often ongoing care. Law enforcement, the legal system and prison system depend on a steady flow of criminals in order to remain profitable. And broken families require social services and a public education system. All of those add up to a huge percentage of the Gross Domestic Product, so perhaps we need to stop talking about racism and start talking about how ghettos are government endorsed factories for producing community ills to keep this service based economy functioning.

Socialist or capitalist, regardless of system or label, no government is anyone’s friend. It exploits human being for its own benefit and slowly murders its citizens. By comparison the Mafia at least has the morally merciful approach to quickly kill someone and not play as governments do like some demonic cat does with it’s prey. We need to stop talking about racism and recognize who the true enemy of humanity is and that it’s not each other.

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