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Another bill to childproof the internet just made it out of committee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee just approved the STOP CSAM Act, a bill that would penalize tech companies for not removing child sexual abuse material from their platforms once alerted to it.
The committee has been on a roll teeing up floor votes on these kinds of bills over the last few weeks. While removing CSAM is an admirable goal, many of these bills have civil liberties experts spooked over their potential to chill encryption adoption and free speech online.
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