INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
While the tech law is expected to achieve the rare feat of getting through Congress at what experts told Ars was a record pace, both
supporters and critics also expect that the law will just as promptly be challenged in courts.Supporters have suggested that any litigation
exposing flaws could result in amendments
They're simultaneously bracing for that backlash, while preparing for the win ahead of the vote tonight and hoping that the law can survive
any subsequent legal attacks mostly intact.In a press conference hosted by the nonprofit Americans for Responsible Innovation, Slade
not let caution be the enemy of progress."Bond joined other supporters in suggesting that apparent threats to encryption or online speech
are "far-fetched."On his side was Encode's vice president of public policy, Adam Billen, who pushed back on the claim that companies might
distributed) on services that provide a "forum for specifically user generated content.""In our mind, encryption simply just is not a
question under this bill, and we have explicitly opposed other legislation that would explicitly break encryption," Billen said.That may be
one way of reading the law, but Daly told Ars that the EFF's lawyers had a different take."We just don't agree with that reading," she said
"As drafted, what will likely pass the floor tonight is absolutely a threat to encryption
There are exemptions for email services, but direct messages, cloud storage, these are not exempted."
