The Senate is currently considering a law that could make censorship
in the United States much easier. It’s called the RESTRICT Act, and
while it’s still early in the legislative process, the bill already
has bipartisan support.
In its current state, the RESTRICT Act gives the feds massive power to
monitor and police U.S. citizens online. It does so by allowing the
Secretary of Commerce to conduct security reviews of tech that is even partially owned by companies from any “foreign adversary.” (Who is a foreign adversary? Any country the secretary says. Seriously.)
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* Moderator's Note
*
* The one thing which gets the attention of elected officials is
* numbers, and the only way to be counted is to write a hand-written
* note to both of your senatos and to your Congressman. They ignore
* all electronic messages - their software counts the keywords, and
* sends them a graph - and they give lip service to typed postal mail
* (some just weigh it).
*
* They do, however, pay a LOT of attention to hand-written letters.
* They are impossible to forge (No, you can't just use a "script"
* font), and they are the most certain way I know of to be sure you'll
* be heard.
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* Bill Horne **********************************************************************
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