Restrict Act - Blog Posts
As you may have guessed from my reblogs the US government is planning on an act that will censor anything it finds a “national security threat”. This is bullshit. They just want to control us more and more and more
Sign right here and call your representatives letting them know you won’t stand for this 👇
Time to act now
So the media keeps mentioning this bill as a TikTok ban but the actual contents are even more concerning. The bill is called the RESTRICT Act and targets six "enemy" countries from the US. It is very vague and gives the government an excuse to restrict citizens' access to foreign technology competing with US companies.
Why do I imply this is about boosting US tech monopolies and not national security concerns as the government claims?
From the article: "But the bill’s implications go beyond TikTok. It’s designed to let the federal government pre-empt situations in which technology produced in any of the six authoritarian countries named in the bill becomes popular in the U.S."
Well soRRRRRyyyy for explaining how Meta is the driving force behind the RESTRICT Act and it's all a ploy to crush competition for US tech monopolies while manufacturing consent with fundamentally baseless 'national security concerns' when you asked me how my day was. Now do you want to hear about why US antitrust laws can't successfully break modern tech monopolies
the RESTRICT act, meant to prevent US citizens from accessing products by foreign companies the US government deems a threat, will result in more than just tiktok being shut down. this is a serious breach of freedom and access to information people dismiss easily because tiktok is put at the forefront of it.
i'm as tired of finding out crazy information from my distraction outlets as the next person, but this is important.
if you are in the us, please call your representative and tell them you oppose bill s686, the RESTRICT act (linked).
they introduced it and are trying to get it going without public knowledge. it completely infringes on our first amendment rights and goes hand and hand with what happened to net neutrality not long ago. i would recommend taking the time to read it as i have a hard time explaining things, but it basically throws our internet privacy further out the door and puts the government's hands directly into our internet pies. if they don't like something, sucks for us.
the ongoing attempt to ban tiktok probably started this, and if anyone can add a better explanation, please do.
Dear Senator __,
I am a United States citizen [if you are a constituent of their district, say that instead] writing to vehemently oppose your current initiative to censor more than 150 million Americans by banning our personal use of TikTok. Your decision to co-sponsor the RESTRICT Act will go down as the single biggest mistake of your entire failed political career. With this choice, you will send many of us over the edge. Your choice to co-sign a fascistic move to censor free speech and assembly—our Constitutionally-enshrined First Amendment rights—will cost you millions of votes from betrayed Americans of every age group. We are Americans with small businesses and side hustles on this app, which many of us operate despite already being employed. We do this because inflation rates are at an all-time high, and eggs cost nearly a dollar-a-piece, and you all are saying “let them eat cake” while you’re blind to the mobs growing restless in the streets. You are stripping away our communities and our voices and making a mockery out of the process of civic engagement. We know you don’t care about listening to us, so we’re speaking the only language you can understand. Continue to support this outrageous legislation, and we will. vote. you. out. This choice can only end badly for you, and it will backfire. So look outside at the dirty, angry, writhing mob in the street and WAKE THE FUCK UP.
Kind Regards,
Do you like having any semblance of privacy through VPN use? Soon that could be severely penalized with 20 years jailtime.
Regarding that last reblog:
If you're in the US PLEASE call your state reps and tell them to vote no on the RESTRICT act (look up your senator here, and your house representatives here). It's a blatant act of censorship that WILL affect the entirety of the internet (you think anti-net neutrality movements are bad? This is worse). Your call doesn't have to be long, but it is key that your reps know you will fight for their losses in the next primary if they vote in favor of this bill. Reasoning with their "human sensibilities" doesn't work with people in that position, you must threaten their power. It would help if you could convince your family members to do the same (if they are a conservative/republican just ask them if they're okay with "a socialist like Biden being able to censor your Internet." It worked on my uncle and he is very conservative).
Here is a link to the US Restrict Act (commonly known as the TikTok ban) as it is currently written.
Please read the actual bill and share even if you do not live in the United States. The precedents this piece of legislation would set would have far reaching impacts on how the internet is used for everyone in the future.
