The Bi-Partisan RESTRICT Act (TikTok Ban) criminalizes using a VPN with up to 20 years in prison, and gives the government broad unchecked surveillance powers

§2.4(B) and §2.8 describe the targets of the bill. I think it’s pretty clear: bad governments and people who help them.

Typically, I didn’t have to take off my shoes, but I was allowed to carry a carbine. Fun, fun.

Correcting someone that seems willfully obtuse.

That’s not very nice. :slight_smile: You’re creating a bad impression.

Sections 3 and 5 cover nearly every piece of software on every computer.

…in response to section 2, which specifies who the bad people are. (They don’t include you.)

Section 3 covers sabotage, subversion, national security breaches (or attempted breaches), election interference, and crime.

Exactly which part of that do you find so troubling?

Not sure, but the company is HQ in China.

Aww, thanks. I’m just adding my opinion, feel free to add your own.

Well, colour me supprised. He is almost 80, I doubht he even knows how to use his iPhone

You believe that he decides what he says?

You asked what the bill’s purpose was… but you claim to know. Either you possess secret knowledge & aren’t sharing it with the rest of us, or you’re catastrophizing.

Are you trolling me?

describe the targets of the bill

So what you’re saying is that as long as I only cause “catastrophic effects on the security or resilience of the critical infrastructure or digital economy of the United States” by torrenting my movies from friendly countries, it doesn’t apply?

If the bill were solely section 2, I’d be much less disappointed in its authors. That’s not the problem. It’s sections 3 and 5.

I believe you may have accidentally responded to the wrong comment

You asked what the bill’s purpose was.

I asked the bills purpose, not what a politician claimed it to be.

I asked you to provide an example of a something the new bill would prevent that existing laws fail to, that wouldn’t have a negative impact on law abiding citizens.

Youve been found wanting.

Are you trolling me?

Yes, I’m also a snowflake, woke, libtard… Whenever you’re challenged to evidence your position with reason or fact, always pick from column A. Never question whether you really should have invested the thought in ensuring you can back up your bollocks. It’s the person questioning yous fault you don’t have an answer!

If you’re not using the VPN to circumvent the no-electioneering-espionage-or-other-crime portion of the Act, why would using a VPN be punished? The bill doesn’t indicate that it would be. Where are you getting this from?

…against a countermeasure that 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…?

I don’t see a problem here.

You are right… Not sure how it happened, and do not care enough to fix it, however. Just one of those weird moments like when the editor decides that formatting is not needed no matter what you do. :slight_smile:

Ah. You’re trolling me.

Got it.

You asked me what the bill’s purpose was. Now you deny it.

subversion of the design, integrity, manufacturing, production, distribution, installation, operation, or maintenance of information and communications technology products and services in the United States;

That part. Too broad. ‘suberversion of communications technology’ is basically every VPN ever. It’s all tunnels, all encryption.

Whatever prevents you from questioning your own failure.

If it isn’t being used as a countermeasure, the VPN isn’t unlawful & neither is its use.

You’re not very nice. :rofl: Is this your way of making me want to be your friend?

I’m confused. Why are you making this personal? You do understand that you’re alienating me and making me not want to interact with you, so why do it?