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re: Dumbasses in House pass Trojan Horse TikTok ban
Posted on 3/13/24 at 2:22 pm to Nosevens
Posted on 3/13/24 at 2:22 pm to Nosevens
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Inside of bill they have the ability to kill any website they don’t agree with
Here is are complete sections containing language taken out of context elsewhere. The link is to the entire bill.
Where do you see language enabling Feds "to kill any website"?
quote:
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CON7 TROLLED APPLICATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS.—It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the United States, any of the following:
(A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.
(B) Providing internet hosting services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of such foreign adversary controlled application for users within the land or maritime borders of the United States.
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) CONTROLLED BY A FOREIGN ADVERSARY.— The term ‘‘controlled by a foreign adversary’’ means, with respect to a covered company or other entity, that such company or other entity is—
(A) a foreign person that is domiciled in, is headquartered in, has its principal place of business in, or is organized under the laws of a foreign adversary country;
(B) an entity with respect to which a foreign person or combination of foreign persons described in subparagraph (A) directly or indirectly own at least a 20 percent stake; or
(C) a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
(2) COVERED COMPANY.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘covered company’’ means an entity that operates, directly or indirectly (including through a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate), a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that—
(i) permits a user to create an account or profile to generate, share, and 14 view text, images, videos, real-time commu15 nications, or similar content;
(ii) has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users with respect to at least 2 of the 3 months preceding the date on which a relevant determination of the President is made pursuant to paragraph (3)(B);
(iii) enables 1 or more users to generate or distribute content that can be viewed by other users of the website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application; and
(iv) enables 1 or more users to view content generated by other users of the website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application.
(B) EXCLUSION.—The term ‘‘covered company’’ does not include an entity that operates a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.
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This post was edited on 3/13/24 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 3/13/24 at 2:39 pm to NC_Tigah
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Where do you see language enabling Feds "to kill any website"?
A federal agency could easily claim a person in part ownership of an entity is subject to "foreign influence".
We've seen em do worse.
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(3) FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLI16 CATION.—The term ‘‘foreign adversary controlled
17 application’’ means a website, desktop application,
18 mobile application, or augmented or immersive tech19 nology application that is operated, directly or indi20 rectly
(C) a person subject to the direction or
2 control of a foreign person or entity described
3 in subparagraph (A) or (B).
Posted on 3/14/24 at 7:08 am to NC_Tigah
This part looks like a good candidate for what I said !!
The term ‘‘covered company’’ means an entity that operates, directly or indirectly (including through a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate), a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that—
(i) permits a user to create an account or profile to generate, share, and 14 view text, images, videos, real-time commu15 nications, or similar content;
(ii) has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users with respect to at least 2 of the 3 months preceding the date on which a relevant determination of the President is made pursuant to paragraph (3)(B);
The term ‘‘covered company’’ means an entity that operates, directly or indirectly (including through a parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate), a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that—
(i) permits a user to create an account or profile to generate, share, and 14 view text, images, videos, real-time commu15 nications, or similar content;
(ii) has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users with respect to at least 2 of the 3 months preceding the date on which a relevant determination of the President is made pursuant to paragraph (3)(B);
This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 7:11 am
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