“The only real change is the replacement of that bill’s already-tepid language attempting to protect encryption, with language from the September 2020 House version of the bill.”
Blumenthal and 18 co-sponsors brought back a bill that died in 2020 and made it worse. The new text lets your use of encryption be held against you in court. It wears a child safety label so nobody in Congress dares vote no. Breaking encryption makes everyone less safe, children included.