It's more or less the same thing. PGP was used as an example of why the Clipper chip was pointless and futile. PGP is an example of why the Earn IT act is pointless and futile.
The Earn IT act is just another instance of the sort of incomplete thinking that produced the Clipper chip.
The point I was getting at in my second paragraph is, the consequences of screwing up everyone's cryptography today include wrecking the modern economy. This wasn't true 30 years ago.
The Earn IT act is just another instance of the sort of incomplete thinking that produced the Clipper chip.