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The RESTRICT Act is a horrible mistake! The TikTok Ban is a Smokescreen for the PATRIOT ACT 2.0! [1]
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Date: 2023-03-28
The following points were articulated succinctly by some more articulate people than me:
This act, while saying it's to insure American's personal information will be safe from foreign powers, it goes much deeper than that. It will give the United States Government the power to remove and ban ANY online service they deem "a security risk" while making it so they do not need just cause and do not need to clarify or release a public statement.
It allows them the power to gather American's data without our knowledge or consent and even force us to submit documentation for anything they wish.
It protects the government from scrutiny on this, and if you try to speak about it and inform people on what it ACTUALLY allows, they can claim it to be false information and charge you.
It prevents you from using a VPN as it's seen as a breach of information security, thus they can charge you.
Failure to abide by these "guidelines" can lead to a fine up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS and/or 20 YEARS in prison.
And above all it does NOTHING to prevent AMERICAN companies from collecting and selling your data. ...Meta started all this because they couldn't compete with tiktok or buy it, so they paid lobbyists to convince congress to ban tiktok so they didn't HAVE to compete. And here's the kicker... Many people of congress actually bought stock in Meta RIGHT BEFORE this all started. They are LITERALLY trying to manipulate the market for themselves. So let them burn.
And that’s what the TikTok ban really is; a smokescreen for Congress to push for even more authoritarian bills. This has BIPARTISAN support and approval from the Biden Administration.
THAT BEING SAID, this bill has only been recently introduced, so we have time.
What should YOU do?
Well, the same thing as past horribly invasive bills like EARN IT and KOSA; we make a LOT of noise, and get the word out.
Right now, the only major publications pushing this bill are mostly neutral, with very few highlighting the flaws of this bill. Getting the word out on how bad this bill is CRUCIAL. Make it EXTREMELY CLEAR that the TikTok ban is just a smokescreen, and that this is nakedly authoritarian and dangerously unconstitutional.
And PLEASE call your Senators. Find your 2 senators numbers here . Fax them, email them. Tell them they MUST oppose this bill. CONTACT any major human rights, LGBT, and cybersecurity related organizations aligned and let them know about this bill.
Tell them they MUST oppose this bill. Calmly make it clear to them that if they support this bill, then you will vote for someone else who doesn’t go along with this blatant act of authoritarian intent. CONTACT any major human rights and cybersecurity related organizations and let them know about this bill. Get this out to any local news groups that you can.
There’s some petitions by groups like ACLU:
https://go.peoplepower.org/letter/tiktok-ban
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