I have less faith in intentions than you do in this case. I do think this is what they want, on both sides, and this is 100% planned to pass. They can get it passed, under the guise of 'evil Chinese'.

Then in a year or 2 later when people realize what just happened, it would be too late ( like patriot act )

Wed Apr 12 2023 09:45:32 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Libtards want excessive moderation to a communist level because their
ideas cannot hold even a whisker to the ideas of the right.

True. However, the latest take on the RESTRICT Act that I heard was that it was designed to fail.

The idea is that the people who are owned by China want to keep using TikTok as a campaign platform, so they built a bunch of poison pills into the RESTRICT Act such as banning VPNs and giving the government (even more than usual) nazi levels of control over social media. That way when it inevitably gets shot down, they can say "we tried to rein in TikTok, but *those* people opposed it."

The recent Usenet kerfuffle over Citadel's Code of Conduct was entertaining. "Muh Twumpists"

its right there. Just go to ************************************** and you will see it.

At least some of it was in alt.folklore.computers but there was likely some crossposting spillover I missed.

According to a federal prosecutor or judge ( not sure which. i have to look more )  the 1st amendment only apply if you work for an approve traditional media outlet. 

They are putting a gag order on a guy 'hes just a YouTuber so should not be able to publish those things' for reporting on a case where the defending is being railroaded.  ( and not that it matters, hes not just a YouTuber, he also writes too..

Ya i wasn't going to get into the weeds with the case, but, Matt's free speech was squelched too.  Printed stuff on a piece of metal. Not cut. Speech. No different than a book..  But.... I heard they now want to ban 'gun plans' in general....  

The country is gone. 

Well, this is bad. Moving blocking sites from DNS level to the App level ( and the network stack once someone notices ) because they dont like what a site 'says'. 

And would shut down opensource projects. 

https://thenextweb.com/news/french-law-threatens-free-internet-warns-mozilla

Says Mozilla, who happily agree with Cloudflare that some websites shouldn't be allowed.

regardless of why/who/what/etc  its a very very dangerous precedent if it goes thru, and they attempt enforcement.

false prophet mooporkmad

Fri Aug 25 2023 09:17:35 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Mozilla demonstrated that they are anti-free-speech the moment they fired Brendan Eich.

It isn't surprising that this is coming from France. There aren't a lot of French people left in France. Most of this comes from the type of people who think blasphemy laws are awesome because they worship the false prophet muhammad.

Right that is the easy answer, but more likely it will be required to be baked into their core product or they still violate the law, due to the risk of patches. ( and in the case of google, they have to pull chromium  )

And yes i could be getting worked up over nothing, but it would be yet one more step towards total censorship.

Sun Aug 27 2023 04:41:44 PM EDT from darknetuser

I bet they would make a censored browser for distribution in france and then people would just patch the censoring out.

Code of Conduct Kitty - CoCK