Hey all. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this Tik Tok ban bill because Thomas Massie among others were trying to get people
Concerned that it could be used to ban domestic companies. It cannot be. It’s limited by the defined term foreign adversary county which means Russia, China, Iran and NK. If your product, app, website, service, etc is US owned you are in the clear as long as you don’t distribute or host the banned apps. Now after the patriot act, I don’t trust our govt to stay within the lines but in its face this has a very limited effect.
Before you get worked up over this and how it’s stifling free speech read the full bill from back to
Front so you see the definitions first. Here it is:
See an example from another post.
Concerned that it could be used to ban domestic companies. It cannot be. It’s limited by the defined term foreign adversary county which means Russia, China, Iran and NK. If your product, app, website, service, etc is US owned you are in the clear as long as you don’t distribute or host the banned apps. Now after the patriot act, I don’t trust our govt to stay within the lines but in its face this has a very limited effect.
Before you get worked up over this and how it’s stifling free speech read the full bill from back to
Front so you see the definitions first. Here it is:
See an example from another post.
