Heavy censorship on Meta apps. We'll all get banned if we try to engage in "free speech" over there.
Posted on 04/19/2024 6:22:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
To the chagrin of middle-schoolers everywhere, the most extreme restrictions on TikTok are on a glide path to passage in Congress.
The bill—which is now set to get a vote on Saturday and is expected to pass with strong bipartisan support—has animated distraught TikTok creators of all ages to call congressional offices and demand they oppose a ban on the popular video app.
While the legislation is largely understood and referred to as a bill to ban TikTok, the truth is far more complex. The measure would not immediately ban TikTok. Rather, it would force its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S.-based entity within nine months of becoming law, giving the president the option of stalling the elimination of TikTok for another 90 days.
The House passed effectively the same measure about five weeks ago—the biggest change is the timeline for a sale, from six months to now nine months (and potentially a year)—but it’s languished in the Senate ever since. With no movement, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) folded the legislation into a quartet of foreign aid bills. By linking the bill to much-needed foreign aid—most specifically, highly controversial Ukraine aid—Johnson’s maneuver is designed to force the Senate to approve the bill.
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Heavy censorship on Meta apps. We'll all get banned if we try to engage in "free speech" over there.
If “JimRob” is declared a “foreign adversary” or “foreign adversary country” then we have bigger issues than H.R. 7521.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872
(2) Covered nation.—The term “covered nation” means—
(A) the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea;
(B) the People’s Republic of China;
(C) the Russian Federation; and
(D) the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Different bill.
Better read the whole thing and the language very well. I did a month ago. It is open and can be used at the sole discretion of the president.
Perhaps you are thinking of this bill (”H.R. 7890” “To amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to strengthen protections...”)(This is not the “TikTok” Bill...which is H.R. 7521)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7890/text/ih?overview=closed&format=xml
Since they lie and extrapolate beyond all rationality without any evidence, they could falsely connect a foreign adversary to any domain they want and the courts would let them.
In fact they already have. Trump and Russia! Russia! Russia!. I can see the claim already:
“MAGA who supports Trump is a domestic terrorist organization who also has ties to our foreign adversary Russia”.
That is all they need to turn this onto every conservative domain out there who supports Trump and MAGA which includes the FR.
Do you really think they will actually play fair with this new power? When have they never twisted powers into something they are not?
Should have never opened that door.
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