The bill to ban TikTok is absolutely terrifying. It gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 28, 2023
This is a Patriot Act for the internet. pic.twitter.com/uYea49F1b1
Observers note that if somebody or something is designated as a threat to national security, under the proposed legislation, the government would be given full access to these entities.
The text of the act singles out several usual suspects as foreign adversaries, such as Russia, China, Iran, etc., but, the director of national intelligence and the secretary of commerce are free to add new “foreign adversaries” to the list, while not under obligation to let Congress know about it.
They would also be given 15 days before notifying the president.
Critics make a point of the fact that US citizens marked as national security threat can also be considered and treated using the provisions of this proposal as “foreign individuals.”
And when this designation is in place, then the threat of “any action deemed necessary” to mitigate it kicks in, which could result in people being ordered to pay a million dollar fine, spend 20 years in prison, or lose all assets (and these forms of punishment would be meted out without due process).
No limits are put on the funding and hiring to enforce the act, and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) would not apply.
I never knew banning an app was complicated 
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RDrama.onion when
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Lol. Tor is completely owned and run by the US government. There are backdoors coded into that shit. All tor is good for it screwing with businesses. A non Five Eyes vpn is much better for bypassing the US government.
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^^ this is cope, vpn is a single point of failure and far easier to honeypot
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That’s why you use a none 5 eyes vpn. That single point is still more than you get when the US government owns the majority of Tor nodes. But feel free to continue thinking tor works like an r-slur
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Tor is very much not perfect and you could justify nesting it with a vpn service depending on the threat model but compared to a vpn service alone onion routing is just better. Also citation needed for us gov owning a majority of nodes.
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The full story iirc is that the government can apply enough pressure on the system to get someone, but it’s pretty clear when it happens and you’d have to be like Osama Bin Laden for them to do it
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God told me
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it was revealed to me in a dream
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That is why I'm buying those WD 110 TB External HDD one at a time. I need to buy 10 of those, get the entire libgen data (current size around 200 TB) and all of /r/drama and rdrama.net archives. Then I will be happy with minimal internet for the rest of my life.
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Pretty sure the meta on HDD size is 14TB, skewing 16TB often. 10TB has never been a great deal.
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please. or if you could just let me change my avatar normally that would be great, baby steps
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