The "TikTok ban" goes beyond TikTok. It is another huge step toward total control.

[Anti-Neocon]

See this great Twitter thread by the LP's Mises Caucus:

https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/st...34790026555394

But sure, let's talk about Trump and DeSantis and wokeness.

The RESTRICT Act is not limited to just TikTok. It gives the government authority over all forms of communication domestic or abroad and grants powers to “enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk” to national security now and in any “potential future transaction”.

For the purpose of this bill a “Transaction” is anything, by anyone.

So what happens if you are designated a national security threat? What can they access of yours to confirm it? Everything.
Notice the preemptive attack on quantum encryption in there, too.

It also allows the Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Commerce the authority to universally designate new “Foreign Adversaries” without notifying congress and a 15 day window to notify the president. It also requires a joint resolution of Congress to overturn.

If you recall from before, “Foreign Individuals” can now also be US citizens that are deemed a national security threat. Once designated, the bill grants authority to enforce any action deemed necessary to mitigate the threat, with no due process and few limits on punishments.

After the federal government has detained you without due process to mitigate the “immediate threat” you pose, what kind of punishments await you in court? $1,000,000 fine, 20 years in prison and forfeiture of everything you own.

This act also grants unlimited hiring power to positions of enforcement, unlimited funds with little or no review and immunity to FOIA.

Sickening, right under our noses apparently. This is basically the new Patriot Act.

[Brian4Liberty]

See this great Twitter thread by the LP's Mises Caucus:

https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/st...34790026555394

But sure, let's talk about Trump and DeSantis and wokeness.



Sickening, right under our noses apparently. This is basically the new Patriot Act.

With Democrats leading the charge now on this, it became obvious what the agenda was.

[Anti-Neocon]

With Democrats leading the charge now on this, it became obvious what the agenda was.

Yeah I definitely heard the deep state media trying to promote it.

Yet they won't say what it actually is, just something scary about Chinese people with our data and that people supported it in a poll, so obviously this is "democratic" or something.

[69360]

Just bar the company tik tok by name from doing business within the US if it is such a threat. No blanket policy is needed.

[Anti-Neocon]

Just bar the company tik tok by name from doing business within the US if it is such a threat. No blanket policy is needed.

It was never really about TikTok though. It's about American companies and the NSA having our data and our money. It's about Big Tech and total surveillance.

Also, TikTok isn't a threat. Just don't use it. While I would be fine putting some business restrictions on it, the Internet cannot be touched as it is one of the last hopes for freedom.

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/stat...35510026944512

[CaptUSA]

[Anti-Neocon]

I don't often watch Tucker's show but sometimes he hits it out of the park, and this is one of those times.

[Brian4Liberty]

Senate Anti-TikTok Bill Is 'Patriot Act For Technology'

Like the PATRIOT Act after 9/11, the RESTRICT Act introduced in the Senate is using a "crisis" to decimate our core Constitutional liberties. The bill gives any presidential administration the power to simply end any social media company it deems a "national security threat." Also today: US pressuring Europe to break with China - will it work?

[Occam's Banana]

CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #62:

Explained: Dangerous New “Anti-TikTok” Law Could Censor ALL Social Media | SYSTEM UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh5NHmMutQw

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/st...42330268921858

[DamianTV]

Lets cut to the summary because people have the attention span of goldfish.

Use a VPN: 20 YEARS IN PRISON
Use a Foreign App: 20 YEARS IN PRISON
Express Free Speech: 20 YEARS IN PRISON
Accused of DISINFORMATION: 20 YEARS IN PRISON

PER INCIDENT

NO JUDGE. NO JURY. NO TRIAL. DO NOT COLLECT $200 DOLLARS, GO DIRECTLY TO PRISON.

All it takes is an ACCUSATION because THERE IS NO TRIAL. THERE IS NO RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE. THERE IS NO COURT.

In the end, the result is DO NOT SPEAK PERIOD. For that is the ONLY way you may remain in compliance with the law.

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This is NOT "just the next attack", or an Incremental Step, THIS IS THE FINAL STEP.

IF THEY ACCUSE YOU, YOU ARE DEAD.

[merkelstan]

Why don't they name the jew?
Look at the $#@!ing facts man.

[acptulsa]

https://twitter.com/IPD_Gaming/statu...50164756160513

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statu...62430504034306
to: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statu...68531500883969

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/IPD_Gaming/statu...50164756160513

Was Lindsey drunk?

And Watters went in the wrong direction by asking if they would "clean it up". There's no way it will be "cleaned up", but it gives them all an excuse to pass it because "it was cleaned up".

[acptulsa]

[A. Havnes]

Even the socialist crazies I know are outraged by this. Hopefully, it blows up in Congress' face.

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statu...63762224922624

CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #64:

Next Patriot Act? Rand Paul Blocks Authoritarian “Anti-TikTok” Bill | SYSTEM UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeGEpdFGX5g

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statu...65466584551424

CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #64:

WATCH: Lindsey Graham Flustered—Can’t Defend His Own Censorship Bill | SYSTEM UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1fs_CaICMw

[acptulsa]

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/statu...66634538873252

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[Valli6]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/...25209064558954

The so-called TikTok ban is a trojan horse.

The President will be given the power to ban WEB SITES, not just Apps.

The person breaking the new law is deemed to be the U.S. (or offshore) INTERNET HOSTING SERVICE or App Store, not the “foreign adversary.”

https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek...%20Updated.pdf

[Valli6]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/...t-trojan-horse

[Valli6]

It needed at least 2/3 of the vote to pass.

Update (1040ET): The House has passed the TikTok divestment bill by a vote of 352-65-1.
There were 15 Republicans who voted against it, and 50 Democrats.

It heads to the Senate next, where it already enjoys the support of Senate Intel Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) and Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-FL).

"We were encouraged by today’s strong bipartisan vote... and look forward to working together to get this bill passed through the Senate and signed into law," the pair said in a statement...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...t-trojan-horse

https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/...24695838445612

[Anti-Neocon]

The new "PATRIOT" Act just passed the House and barely see anything about this here.

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1767942725888872460

Sean Davis @seanmdav

This TikTok bill language is so broad and poorly drafted that it will absolutely be used to shut down media the U.S. government doesn’t like, just like the Patriot Act was used to spy on innocent Americans who hadn’t done anything wrong.

Remember how the entire U.S. intelligence community moved to have the New York Post banned for reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop under the guise that it was all Russian disinformation? The U.S. intel community knew the laptop was legit and authentic, but they lied about it anyway and used their lies as a pretext to ban media outlets they didn’t like.

Remember how the same corrupt intel community similarly fabricated and spread the Russian collusion hoax, and how its minions accused anyone who accurately reported on the hoax of being Russian stooges? The language of this TikTok bill would give those same crooks and liars the authority to shut down and criminally prosecute and penalize media outlets by merely accusing them of being “subject to the direction” of an adversary. What does that even mean?

How do you think a government which accuses anyone who criticizes its corruption or garbage foreign policy of being a traitor will use that language? Having lived through the Iraq WMD hoax, and the Russiagate hoax, and the COVID natural origins hoax, and J6, and the myriad Ukraine hoaxes, do you think your government will judiciously use that language as narrowly as possible, or do you think it will use that language to persecute its domestic political opponents?

At this very moment, @FDRLST, @DailyWire, and @KenPaxtonTX are having to sue the U.S. State Department for illegally using its authority to combat foreign propaganda against its domestic political opponents. Our own government is already abusing laws and programs that exist only to target foreign media to instead target American media outlets for critically reporting on misdeeds by the U.S. government.

This isn’t a theoretical or academic discussion. For decades, our government has given itself massive new police power, ostensibly targeted at foreign enemies, only to immediately weaponize those new powers against the American people.

What on earth makes you think these same people will magically stop abusing the new powers they keep giving themselves?
...
https://congress.gov/bill/118th-cong...bill/7521/text

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/...34303735161124

[WarriorLiberty]

The 100+ Republicans and fake freedom advocates that pushed this bill in the House should be voted out....

[WarriorLiberty]

CLIP from SYSTEM UPDATE #64:

WATCH: Lindsey Graham Flustered—Can’t Defend His Own Censorship Bill | SYSTEM UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1fs_CaICMw

From the Same Warmongering Senator who said to Iran "Bring it On we arent afraid of losing"
Treating wars like a video game or action movies.