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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its not a bill that bans tiktok, its a bill that HAPPENS to ban tiktok. r-slurs will foolishly believe the surface level pitch..
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Good. Ban the internet
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This but about 98% unironically.
Ban everything that isn't wikisource, Wikipedia, wiktionary, and the, like, six other sites that don't radiate a billion becquerels of cancers.
"But my porn and online shopping and McTickytockyFaceSpace.goy"
Go outside. Tbh, I need to get grassed or let the fed turn off my internet, whichever is easiest
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Wikipedia unironically donates all their money to DEI efforts and progressive causes.
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Yeah, Wikipedia receives a crazy amount of money, and they absolutely don't need it because their staff is tiny and their infrastructure isn't getting any bigger. So all those WE NEED $5 TO SURVIVE campaigns just funnel right into goofy charities that would otherwise never make more money than a local gofundme
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Sorry no. soyboys mod Wikipedia. Only encyclopedia dramatica allowed
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Wikipedia is almost perfect, if you don't look at Talk pages or anything related to history
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or the Scots language page
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I think it was any page in Scots lol
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or anything related to politics or cultural issues
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or Shakespeare
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only Uncyclopedia
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Keep yourself safe, you will pry my Amazon prime out of my cold dead hands.
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It doesn't even ban TikTok, it just lets them ban it. They could just sit on the zoomer question and use it to punish random political enemies
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That’s how all bills in our government for the last 40 years have worked.
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