> Not sure why you're discounting the potential for foreign influence campaigns from reducing the accountability your government has to you. People often bring

> Not sure why you're discounting the potential for foreign influence campaigns from reducing the accountability your government has to you. People often bring up this point, and yet if China poured every resource they had available into spreading chaos and disinformation, it would not touch what domestically-sourced influence campaigns are currently achieving. You might say that, nonetheless, it's a step in the right direction. But when disinformation and manipulation is as ubiquitous as it is now, the real effect of this law will simply be to protect informal alliances between legislators, media companies, and intelligence agencies. There's a handful of things they all agree on (which may not be in your best interest), and this law helps make sure conversations about those things never gain traction.