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The act itself does not, it only gives the secretary of commerce the power to create regulations and other mandates related to any company owned by something th
by bioemerl 4y ago
The act itself does not, it only gives the secretary of commerce the power to create regulations and other mandates related to any company owned by something that is defined as a foreign adversary, which in the bill is listed as Venezuela, China, Iran, Russia, the typical types.
Basically what would happen is, Bill gets passed.
The secretary of commerce, or some other figure in that range, talks to the president and they decide yeah, we need to ban those guys.
They talk to apple, Google, Microsoft, various cloud providers, and say "yeah, you're taking them off your store. You're also not allowed to do any business with them anymore".
I don't think it's likely they end up talking to ISPs to try to cut off the internet side of things, because that's going to take a lot more work and the people given power in this case aren't the sort to try to do that sort of thing.
So you're probably never going to be unable to access the website, they're just going to make it a heck of a lot harder to use it, and they're going to cut off all profit motive.
- gruez 4y ago>The secretary of commerce, or some other figure in that range, talks to the president and they decide yeah, we need to ban those guys. >They talk to apple, Google, Microsoft, various cloud providers, and say "yeah, you're taking them off your store. You're also not allowed to do any business with them anymore" Yeah, that's what I thought the law does. I think that's bad for other reasons, but the "omg they're going after your VPNs" rhetoric is over the topp.
- concordDance 4y ago> I don't think it's likely they end up talking to ISPs to try to cut off the internet side of things, because that's going to take a lot more work and the people given power in this case aren't the sort to try to do that sort of thing. Given sci-hub is banned at the ISP level here in the UK, I disagree.
- bioemerl 4y agoTotally different country. Totally different laws. You can't compare them.