Senate - 07/20/2020 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 491. (All Actions)
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09/30/2020 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020
This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.
Among other things, the bill does the following:
establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention,
directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online services providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children,
limits the liability protections of online service providers with respect to claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws, and
replaces statutory references to child pornography with child sexual abuse material.
Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020
This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.
Among other things, the bill does the following:
establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention,
directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online services providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children,
limits the liability protections of online service providers with respect to claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws, and
replaces statutory references to child pornography with child sexual abuse material.
Shown Here: Introduced in Senate (03/05/2020)
Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020
This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.
Among other things, the bill does the following:
establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention;
directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online services providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children;
requires interactive online service providers to certify compliance with the best practices (or implement other reasonable practices to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children), or else they lose liability protections from claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws; and
replaces statutory references to child pornography with child sexual abuse material.
