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What do libs and cons have to do with this topic?
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Not a damn thing. Totally bi-partisan police state measure.
IN fact, if you want to know who the top sergents in the Deep State for each party are, just look at who the co-sponsers on this Bill are from, in each party.
If you want to know who wants to sell their soul from each party, look who signed on to be a co-sponser after the Bill was introduced. (Introducing sponsors have asterisks, coattail hangers ons don't.)
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Let’s hope Americans have wised up this time. Every politician supporting this Orwellian POS should be removed from office.
Good column here…
Beware of the Restrict Act: Patriot Act for the Internet on Steroids
Can a Left/Right Civil Libertarian Coalition defeat the Restrict Act?
The Restrict act is bi-partisan legislation, sponsored by Democratic Senator, Mark Warner, and Republican, John Thune, and co-sponsored by 11 Democrats including, Joe Manchin, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Tammy Baldwin, Tim Kaine, and Richard Blumenthal, and 13 Republicans, including Mitt Romney, Sue Collins, Chuck Grassley, and Lindsay Graham, as well as Independent, Angus King. Co-sponsor, Lindsay Graham, played dumb in response to questions about the bill’s threats to civil liberties from Fox News’ Jesse Waters. House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, also expressed support for moving legislation forwards to ban TikTok, though he was vague as to whether he would support the Restrict act, or another bill proposed by Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio, that is an outright ban of TikTok. Basically, the act is supported by the establishment wings of both parties, and of course the Biden administration is in favor. This legislation was likely crafted by an alliance of K-Street lawyers (DHS Lawfare types), Deep State interests, and Silicon Valley, to suppress any competition to Big Tech. Obviously Big Tech has no high ground, in regards to protecting user data.
Opposition to the Restrict act is gaining traction, with a coalition of unlikely opponents across the spectrum. Tucker Carlson and journalist, Glenn Greenwald, were at the forefront of speaking out against the bill, and more recently the ACLU issued a press release expressing concern. Rand Paul is probably the most outspoken opponent of the bill in the Senate, and both Ilhan Omar and AOC have expressed concern, with AOC pointing out that congress had not been briefed on the nature of the bill. The Restrict act is so atrocious that it has united AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rand Paul, and Tucker Carlson in opposition.
Beware of the Restrict Act: Patriot Act for the Internet on Steroids
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No, I asked WHO.
The answer is, Mark Warner, and Lindsay Graham.
Two of the biggest un-American FUCKTARDS in the Senate.
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You need to read more about this bill. Many Rs are supporting it.
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Yeah this from the column I posted above. It looks like Americans once again will be fooled into accepting an Orwellian future. Once again, it comes back to the Don.
We’re just a bunch of dumb pussies.
Whatever you think about Trump as a president, his election was a shock to the system, that caused those in power to take their masks off. The system has traditionally relied more upon soft power, but recently there has been a major shift towards hard power. Basically, seeking to cripple any future anti-establishment movements from either the left or right, as late stage empires have historically turned inwards against their own people. However, the idea that the elites’ power is severely threatened, and any expectations of the masses as a sleeping giant arising, can be a cope, as the masses have shown themselves to be conformists, ambivalent, complacent, and compliant. Overall political opposition is pathetic, and I have noticed many dissidents falling back into the partisan trap. For instance rightwing populists saying that you have to vote GOP or Biden and the woke democrats will take away our freedom. The same applies to Bernie supporters, who got morally blackmailed into “vote blue no matter who,” because Trump was a fascist. Culture war wedge issues, such as the Trans issue, and even CRT, are distractions compared to the Restrict act’s existential threat to civil liberties. There is also speculation that the recent indictment of Trump was intended as a distraction from the bill.
We’re just a bunch of dumb pussies.
Whatever you think about Trump as a president, his election was a shock to the system, that caused those in power to take their masks off. The system has traditionally relied more upon soft power, but recently there has been a major shift towards hard power. Basically, seeking to cripple any future anti-establishment movements from either the left or right, as late stage empires have historically turned inwards against their own people. However, the idea that the elites’ power is severely threatened, and any expectations of the masses as a sleeping giant arising, can be a cope, as the masses have shown themselves to be conformists, ambivalent, complacent, and compliant. Overall political opposition is pathetic, and I have noticed many dissidents falling back into the partisan trap. For instance rightwing populists saying that you have to vote GOP or Biden and the woke democrats will take away our freedom. The same applies to Bernie supporters, who got morally blackmailed into “vote blue no matter who,” because Trump was a fascist. Culture war wedge issues, such as the Trans issue, and even CRT, are distractions compared to the Restrict act’s existential threat to civil liberties. There is also speculation that the recent indictment of Trump was intended as a distraction from the bill.
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I have a better idea.
I say we monitor the communications of all our elected fucktards.
Cause THOSE bastards need to be monitored.
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Alternate forms of communication will evolve to thwart this gestapo tactic.The federal government has been fearmongering over TikTok, an app that spies on you for the Chinese government no more or less than any other social media app.
And now we know why.
It's called the RESTRICT Act, and if it passes, it will be one of the biggest infringements on your rights and privacy in American history.
RESTRICT gives the government authority over every single form of communication, anywhere, and authorizes them to label you, or any other human being on earth, a "national security threat".
It will allow them to collect any communication or transaction data on you and everyone else, without any warrant or oversight, and it bans you from encrypting your data to stop them.
If you violate any section of RESTRICT, you will be labeled a "foreign adversary", even if you're an American citizen living in America.
Orwell's Oceania would be proud with that bit of newspeak.
Once you're labeled, the only way it could be removed is by a resolution from both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
That's right, you can't fight this. You can't ask for due process. You'd have to rely on an act of Congress.
And how could they punish you?
Just about any way they wish, and without any trial or due process.
At the very least, you could suffer a $1 million fine and 20 years in prison, and you would have to surrender every single thing you own.
RESTRICT also gives the government unlimited hiring power, and unlimited funding.
Want to file a FOIA request to see why you were labeled a "foreign adversary"?
Tough.
RESTRICT gives government immunity from FOIA.
I want to put this plainly: RESTRICT, if passed, will remove any semblance of limitation on government's ability to frame you, rob you of everything, and destroy your life.
You will have no privacy, no due process, and no ability to even find out why they did this to you.
Now you know why they've been trying to scare you about foreign dictatorships: to distract you from the domestic dictatorship they're attempting to create.
Contact your Senators and Representative now, and tell them to oppose the Restrict Act.
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Let's hope so. The bureaucracy has a way, making new codes off of already passed laws, to keep up with changing trends.
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I have checked the indy media on the far left, this is, so far, the only thing that has come up.
US Congress holds anti-China witch-hunt at TikTok hearing
On Thursday, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee put on a five-hour spectacle of xenophobia, anticommunism and anti-Chinese invective, focussed on demands to ban TikTok, the sixth most popular social network in the world.
www.wsws.org
". . . But the attack on the freedom of expression of the American population is an equally significant goal of the campaign against TikTok.
The Trump administration’s 2018 National Security Strategy, which proclaimed the doctrine of “great power conflict,” asserted that the US conflict with China requires “the seamless integration of multiple elements of national power—diplomacy, information, economics, finance, intelligence, law enforcement and military.”
This totalitarian integration of the “law enforcement and military” and the information sphere forms the framework of the US effort to ban TikTok. All aspects of social and economic life are to be brought under state control in the name of “great-power competition.”
Thursday’s spectacle is a warning of just how committed the entire US political establishment is toward escalating the US conflict with China, and using this conflict as a framework to attack fundamental democratic rights."
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That’s a good sign. At least some in the MSM see this bill for what it is. Of course, senator Graham is a lying asshole.
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Agreed. Most intelligent folks would not deny, if he were in office, Trump would support & sign such a loathsome, liberty killing piece of dreck, in a heartbeat as well.No one seriously denies that.
Try another approach.
He only pretends to be different than establishment neo-cons & neo-libs. He ain't though.
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So true, yet it seems few Americans know this.
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