RESTRICT ACT THREATENS TO BAN INTERNET FREEDOM, NOT JUST TIKTOK– Rather than creating a bill that would simply ban TikTok due to its overt connections to the Chinese Communist Party (which aims to destroy the American republic and turn us into a vassal of Xi Jinping), the bipartisan cabal in Washington has created a bill called the “Restrict Act” that would enable the state to censor and criminally prosecute individuals and companies for merely threatening American security.
The purpose of the bill is vague. In its own words, it states it is a bill “to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes.” The bill gives near-God-like powers to the secretary of commerce and other Biden officials to destroy free speech on the internet under the guise of protecting American security. It states:
In general
The Secretary, in consultation with the relevant executive department and agency heads, is authorized to and shall take action to identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, or otherwise mitigate, including by negotiating, entering into, or imposing, and enforcing any mitigation measure to address any risk arising from any covered transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States that the Secretary determines—
(1)poses an undue or unacceptable risk of—
(A)sabotage or subversion of the design, integrity, manufacturing, production, distribution, installation, operation, or maintenance of information and communications technology products and services in the United States;
(B)catastrophic effects on the security or resilience of the critical infrastructure or digital economy of the United States;
(C)interfering in, or altering the result or reported result of a Federal election, as determined in coordination with the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Treasury, and the Federal Election Commission; or
(D)coercive or criminal activities by a foreign adversary that are designed to undermine democratic processes and institutions or steer policy and regulatory decisions in favor of the strategic objectives of a foreign adversary to the detriment of the national security of the United States, as determined in coordination with the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Treasury, and the Federal Election Commission; or
(2)otherwise poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety of United States persons.
That last sentence, “otherwise poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States….” is where the real tyrannical, fascistic power of the bill comes to bear. The bill itself doesn’t address TikTok at all, and one doubts that the signing of this anti-American, pro-Chinese bill will actually result in TikTok being banned at all. It is more likely that platforms like Rumble will face Biden’s anti-American DOJ agents in criminal proceedings than will the DNC-CCP run platform TikTok ever will.
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