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Friendly reminder that the TikTok ban is actually the Restrict Act, and that is a much larger, more aggressive and powerful piece of legislation that's being pu

• concernedsoft 4y ago
  It's pretty scary. I wrote down some thoughts on this with regard to general purpose computing: https://concernedsoftwareuser.github.io/software-freedom/ https://concernedsoftwareuser.github.io/software-freedom/
• jhallenworld 4y ago
  The latest enemies list: (i) the People’s Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region; (ii) the Republic of Cuba; (iii) the Islamic Republic of Iran; (iv) the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; (v) the Russian Federation; and (vi) the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros.
  • t-writescode 4y ago
    To add, sections 9 and 10 read to me (very paraphrased) "Any telecom, etc, product where someone in the parent post's list has partial ownership, including voting stocks and has >= 1 million users" So, that includes a lot of video games (Genshin Impact, League of Legends, Gunfire Reborn, etc) and also Reddit and Epic Games, maybe? I'm sure an argument would be made that since the CEO of Telegram was born in Russia, it would count, too, somehow. Edit: whoever downvoted the above comment, that's literally section 8B Addendum: I'm not a lawyer, I'm just a layperson trying to read this thing.