In all seriousness, I was just highlighting an X comment that was in the original X post.
My concern is that this is a very slippery slope regardless of what is in this bill.
I am a FREE SPEECH absolutist. It's the 1st Bill of Rights. I don't want the government telling me what I can and cannot say or who I can or cannot listen to.
I am sharing Sundance's which I generally agree with.
I swear by all that I know to be righteous and accurate, the combined willpower of the UniParty in Washington DC is not targeting TikTok from the perspective of concern over data collection. Instead, the DC system -which is to say the USIC- is using the auspices of TikTok to expand the reach of government censorship and control information.
This is a domestic information space battle, using the guise of TikTok as a baseline for justification. How do we know? You only need to look at the mechanism of the law as it is written, the compliance section, and the definitions they are using to see they are not targeting data collection. [pdf of HR7521 HERE]
If TikTok data collection was the issue, the law would be structured to ban foreign data collection. That’s not what this is. This is a law written to give the Executive Branch the power to define any platform as “foreign owned” by the service provider (even if domestic) and the substance of the content contained and/or distributed. This has to be stopped.
Read the law as written through the prism of “Information Control,” not the prism of data collection. The law is designed to control information, not data collection.
As readers are well aware, the USIC is in alignment (I would say control) with almost all U.S-based social media platforms. This is why/how DHS is operating in synergy with those same systems. This is also the motive behind the mis-dis-mal-information definitions. Ultimately, if you stand back and look at what is being done, you see the concern of the U.S. government is not data collection, its information control.
The TikTok ban, authorized by a duplicious Legislative branch, is expanding the ability of the Executive branch to control information. Just as The Patriot Act was not about targeting terrorism, but really about domestic surveillance; so too is the TikTok ban not about foreign data collection, it’s about information control.
Again, read the law as written and you can clearly see this is a law created to authorize the agencies of the government to control information. Silence is the same as consent in the face of oppression. Do not be silent.
I'm a slow reader, as I have mentioned before. Am skeptical about the speed of process on this. Am skeptical about the summary. Am now proceeding with the reading of all three versions of the text and I am pretty sure it will take me longer than the 40 minutes that they debated this. One week from bill submission to vote is insufficient to give my rep input about it anyway. So, my input is prolly gonna be just to gripe about it.
They have to pass it before I know what's in it.
In all seriousness, I was just highlighting an X comment that was in the original X post.
My concern is that this is a very slippery slope regardless of what is in this bill.
I am a FREE SPEECH absolutist. It's the 1st Bill of Rights. I don't want the government telling me what I can and cannot say or who I can or cannot listen to.
You do know how to find and read the bill, though, don't you? If you are so inclined to, right?
I do.
I posted a link to the entire bill yesterday.
What are your thoughts on it?
I am sharing Sundance's which I generally agree with.
It kinda reminds me of the CARES Act.
I'm a slow reader, as I have mentioned before. Am skeptical about the speed of process on this. Am skeptical about the summary. Am now proceeding with the reading of all three versions of the text and I am pretty sure it will take me longer than the 40 minutes that they debated this. One week from bill submission to vote is insufficient to give my rep input about it anyway. So, my input is prolly gonna be just to gripe about it.