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The so-called TikTok ban is a sneaky move by the government to gain control over the internet.
(docs.house.gov)
By giving the President the power to ban websites, not just apps, it opens up a whole new can of worms.
Instead of targeting foreign adversaries directly, the law holds US (or offshore) internet hosting services and app stores responsible for any breaches in security or privacy.
This is a Trojan horse that could lead to censorship and control over what people access online.
There's no way this gets past the senate, right? Right?!
For real though, just an updated PATRIOT act for the internet, and clearly a response to mass spread of effective working class/pro-Palestine propaganda. Can't have the slaves seeing other slave rebellions!
It is actually more likely it gets past the Senate than the Congress. The Senate has always been the more reactionary body and the more dependable one for the neocon imperialist deep state to rely on to advance their agenda.
We already have laws like this in Europe, I think it would be very naive to believe that America is so exceptional that it won't happen there.
At this point the only way I see it being blocked is as a last act of Mitch McConnel's "block everything during a Democratic presidency" strategy, which in the past has been set aside for bills like this so I don't see why they wouldn't let it through. The best way to block it might be to tie it to border security or something that the Reps don't want to give Dems a "win" on, lmao.