“You understand that the legislation is broader than that?”
What specifically in the law gives the Feds the right to ban other social media? Does the law name Facebook or Free Republic, or anything beyond Tik-Tok?
Some of us mere mortals are not all seeing and all knowing as yourself, we would appreciate specific information, maybe cut and paste from the legislation the language that gives unlimited rights to the Gov’t to ban any media the Gov’t wants.
FR has a lot of foreign donors (including myself#!) that broad law will cover this place if the Feds wanted to shut it down
Food for thought, eh?
They left themselves a loophole the ignorant people do not understand. This loophole allows them to apply or not apply any and every requirement or exclusion as they like selectively at their discretion.
They are not bound by the sum of the whole which means they can adapt it to fit whatever service they decide they want to use it against. It is right there in plain text...
“(1) IN GENERAL.—If any provision of this section or the application of this section to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect the other provisions or applications of this section that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.”
Meaning none of the requirements are bound, and none of the exclusions are bound. They can twist it anyway they like selectively. I have been warning about this language since the very beginning.
They ALWAYS leave bills open ended so they can always be twisted and used how THEY like. Open ended legal text is a huge problem the people need to address.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text
The relevant legislation according to Grok2...
The specific legislation that allows the U.S. government to potentially ban the TikTok app is the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (H.R. 7521). This legislation was passed by the United States House of Representatives on March 13, 2024, and was signed into law by President Joe Biden on April 24, 2024. Under this law, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is required to divest from the app or face a ban in the United States. The legislation gives ByteDance a deadline to sell TikTok to an approved buyer, with the ban potentially going into effect if not complied with by January 19, 2025, extendable by an additional 90 days if progress toward divestiture is shown.
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“(1) PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS.—It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the United States, any of the following:”
[full text at link below...]
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text
How about if the government says it wants to ban just a small category of “bad guns” that are made in Germany, because Germany is where Hitler operated and Hitler was bad and there are still Nazi’s in Germany. Just a few guns will be affected.