The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
I think we need age limits. And lower term limits. We cannot have people stuck in an era 3 decades old deciding the fate of our country as it goes into the future. They are simply not equipped to deal with today&#x27;s problems, let alone tomorrow&#x27;s.<p>At 60 years[1], the median age of the Senate is 20 years more than the median age of the US population[2] - if this isn&#x27;t an example of how broken and entrenched our power structures are, I don&#x27;t know what is.<p>These issues are also also an artifact of a societal structure in which we use the winners of a rigged popularity contest to decide the future of our country rather than that of independent academics on a per-issue basis.<p>Through the lens of E2EE legislation, we are seeing our democracy crumbling because we failed to enforce that our representatives <i>actually knowing what they are talking about</i>.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;CRSpubs&#x2F;b8f6293e-c235-40fd-b895-6474d0f8e809.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.senate.gov&#x2F;CRSpubs&#x2F;b8f6293e-c235-40fd-b895-6474d...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;demographics&#x2F;us-demographics&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;demographics&#x2F;us-demographics&#x2F;</a>