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When Congress supports a bill on a bipartisan basis, that’s usually reason to worry.
Establishment Democrats and Republicans claim S. 686, otherwise known as the RESTRICT Act, would ban China’s TikTok app in the U.S. to protect the American people from communist subversion.
Alex Jones breaks down the government’s TikTok smokescreen:
But in reality, the bill would greatly expand the U.S. government’s domestic surveillance powers, ironically mirroring the Chinese Communist Party’s methods of spying on its own people.
The bill begins by declaring the executive branch would have unilateral authority to access any electronic form of communication available if they simply suspect you of wrongdoing.
The bill to ban TikTok is absolutely terrifying. It gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light.
This is a Patriot Act for the internet. pic.twitter.com/uYea49F1b1
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 28, 2023
And if they find you in violation, “they can put you in jail for 20 years, fine you $1M, and seize your property. They can also deem any foreign government an adversary without informing congress and everything they do is not subjected to FOIA,” Greg Price noted.
Believe it or not, it gets even worse: If you find you in violation, they can put you in jail for 20 years, fine you $1M, and seize your property.
They can also deem any foreign government an adversary without informing congress and everything they do is not subjected to FOIA. pic.twitter.com/3F3VTJrl5x
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 28, 2023
“If this was about banning TikTok, they would pass a bill that simply bans TikTok. But the uniparty is trying to create the same system of domestic spying they did after 9/11 for the internet but on steroids,” he added.
The bill was introduced by Senator Mark Warner from Virginia. Here’s a list of all the people co-sponsoring it. Basically runs the table for worst members of the DC uniparty. pic.twitter.com/5Miq7fl8pu
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 28, 2023
The bill was introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and John Thune (R-S.D.), and is cosponsored by the usual Uniparty swamp creatures, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.).
Fox News host Tucker Carlson broke it down during his Monday night show, explaining that the “TikTok ban” bill would actually make America more like China.
“This is one of those weird moments where there is or appears to be some kind of bipartisan consensus and that alone might want to make you pause for a second,” Carlson explained. “If everyone in power is saying the same thing, is it really a good idea? Well, let’s take a closer look. and again, this is not a defense of TikTok, merely an acknowledgment of what’s actually happening in Washington right now.”
The Chinafication of America Comes Disguised as a “Ban TikTok” Bill@TuckerCarlson: “So you would be allowing the executive branch, the Biden administration, to regulate speech on the internet. And if you are somehow involved with a ‘foreign adversary,’ or let’s say you oppose… pic.twitter.com/dvq2fEVck1
— The Vigilant Fox
(@VigilantFox) March 28, 2023
He continued:
Now, the bill is ostensibly a protecting American national security and ending “foreign adversaries” from interfering in our elections through apps like TikTok because, of course, election interference by Twitter and Facebook is no problem at all. But election interference from TikTok is totally unacceptable. OK. But in reality, and you should know this, if you’re opposed to TikTok as we are, This bill isn’t really about banning TikTok. It’s never about what they say it is.
Instead, this bill would give enormous and terrifying new powers to the federal government to punish American citizens and regulate how they communicate with one another. For example, the bill would regulate “certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries.” Now, what’s a foreign adversary and who gets to decide? The secretary of commerce and the department and the DNI, not the Congress, get to decide what foreign adversaries are. Well, that ought to trip a switch in your brain and then the transactions with foreign adversaries would include “any acquisition, importation, transfer, installation, dealing in or use of any information and communications technology, product or service, including ongoing activities such as mandated services, data transmission, software updates, repairs, or the provision of data hosting services.” Well, that’s pretty broad.
Under this bill, if you engage in any of that with a so-called foreign adversary as determined by, in this case, the Biden administration, that would allow the Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimando, and the director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, to decide whether you’re acting in the “interest of a foreign adversary.”
“Think about that for a minute. So, you would be allowing the executive branch, the Biden administration, to regulate speech on the Internet and if you are somehow involved with a ‘foreign adversary’ or let’s say you oppose the war against Russia, you’re going to prison for 20 years. So, this isn’t about banning TikTok. This is about introducing flat out totalitarianism into our system,” he concluded.
Naturally, the White House reportedly supports this Trojan Horse.
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