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The LAED act: The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data act has been proposed by three Republican senators: Graham, Cotton and Blackburn. It pretty much bans providers from offering end-to-end encryption.
One theory is that it exists simply to make the proposed EARN IT act, in which providers lose ยง230 protections if they offer end-to-end encryption, appear to be more of a compromise. The EARN IT act would have the de facto effect of banning end-to-end encryption, but does have bipartisan support.
One workaround would be to offer an open-source encryption application that piggybacks on top of, say, email or (more likely) SMS messaging; in such a setting, there is no provider. Of course, First Amendment protections to offer source code are still somewhat tenuous; this argument won in the Bernstein and Junger encryption cases, but failed in Universal v Reimerdes, about the DMCA ban on anti-DRM software. Signal used to send encrypted messages via SMS, but they gave up. You get 140 bytes, and it's hard to do key negotiation without an extra
You can read about the LAED act here: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-now-even-worse-anti-encryption-bill-earn-it-doesn%E2%80%99t-make-earn-it-bill-ok.