In 2013, Congress abolished the domestic dissemination ban. Check your terminology. It doesn’t allow it, it just doesn’t expressly forbid it anymore. Such distinction is important in understanding legal law fare.
Congress stripped the Smith–Mundt Act of all meaningful restrictions on the domestic dissemination of government-produced programming, imparting the State Department and the BBG with enormous power to anonymously disseminate their programming within the United States.
In 2013, Congress abolished the domestic dissemination ban. Check your terminology. It doesn’t allow it, it just doesn’t expressly forbid it anymore. Such distinction is important in understanding legal law fare.
Okay, thank you. Please share your sauce if you don't mind. I appreciate it.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1203&context=nulr
I hope you read it and understand it.
Thank you. I am pretty sure I understand it.
Then you understand that the law doesn’t grant the government powers, it restricts them, and protective restrictions were removed.
Modernization doesn’t allow anything as you originally stated.