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Content warning: RESTRICT Act #uspol
EFF Analysis: The Broad, Vague #RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive #Data #Privacy Legislation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/broad-vague-restrict-act-dangerous-substitute-comprehensive-data-privacy The proposal "authorizes penalties, including 25 years of prison time, for any person who brings #TikTok into the U.S., whether by use of a #VPN or downloading it while in another country." This could potentially outlaw US use of the #Tor Browser that the US helped develop to bypass #censorship in unfree countries.
The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation
This bill is being called a “TikTok ban,” but it’s more complicated than that. The bill would give more power to the executive branch and remove many of the commonsense restrictions that exist under the Foreign Intelligence Services Act and the Berma…Electronic Frontier Foundation