How To Communicate Privately Online

With the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, two U.S. senators have reintroduced a surveillance bill that could have major impacts on privacy and free speech, turning the offering of encryption services into legal risk territory for service providers.

While the censorship of free speech is already flourishing on public platforms such as Twitter, the EARN IT act would enforce the transmission of all communication between users in plain text format, transforming our inboxes into searchable data mines. But here’s the good news: there are numerous ways to encrypt our communication by ourselves.

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