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The Government can arbitrarily ban any service because the law covers desktop apps, mobile apps, gaming apps, payment apps, and web apps. I'm not sure what app
by htrp 4y ago
The Government can arbitrarily ban any service because the law covers desktop apps, mobile apps, gaming apps, payment apps, and web apps.
I'm not sure what apps are left outside of the scope of this.
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From the bill(full context)
6) software designed or used primarily for connecting with and communicating via the internet that is in use by greater than 1,000,000 persons in the United States at any point during the year period preceding the date on which the covered transaction is referred to the Secretary for review or the Secretary initiates review of the covered transaction, including—
(A) desktop applications;
(B) mobile applications;
(C) gaming applications;
(D) payment applications; or
(E) web-based applications; or
(7) information and communications technology products and services integral to—
(A) artificial intelligence and machine learning;
(B) quantum key distribution;
(C) quantum communications;
(D) quantum computing;
(E) post-quantum cryptography;
(F) autonomous systems;
(G) advanced robotics;
(H) biotechnology;
(I) synthetic biology;
(J) computational biology; and
(K) e-commerce technology and services, including any electronic techniques for accomplishing business transactions, online retail, internet-enabled logistics, internet-enabled payment technology, and online marketplaces.
- onion2k 4y agoI think this means command line interfaces are going to make a comeback.
- shbooms 4y agoI feel like even that would fall under the umbrella of a desktop app in the context of this asine bill. they didn't say desktop apps with a GUI, just any "app" running on a desktop which I'm sure they would argue includes bash or whatever else you're running as your CLI.
- KevinGlass 4y agoMaybe a service that you interact with over HAM radio via NLP would fall outside of it.
- mcv 4y agoAre talking about apps visible on the graphical UI desktop, or apps running on desktop computers? Because I've been relying more on laptops lately, and they're not mentioned. So the combination of laptop + cli is not covered by this law.
- 1970-01-01 4y ago>in use by greater than 1,000,000 persons ... >quantum communications Bravo trying to squash a problem that will take decades to exist.