[HN Gopher] The Restrict Act would allow the Feds access to all ...
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       The Restrict Act would allow the Feds access to all the data on our
       devices
        
       Author : new_user_final
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-03-29 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | varunjain99 wrote:
       | While the language of the bill is certainly way too broad and
       | confusing, there's also a lot of fearmongering + exaggeration
       | going on...
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       | E.g. I'm hearing folks talk about criminalizing VPN use... but
       | the bill does lay out _very_ high standards for any criminal
       | liability
        
         | epakai wrote:
         | It's almost amusing to see them post part of the text of the
         | bill, and there's nothing in those sections that confirms what
         | they claim.
         | 
         | On reddit I ran into the VPN claim, but they only posted the
         | section of the bill that listed foreign adversaries followed by
         | the criminal penalties.
         | 
         | Sadly these are getting lots of engagement with their
         | sensational claims. Seems to work on HN as well...
        
       | zerocrates wrote:
       | The specific claim that it would cover Ring seems wrong? The
       | whole thing only comes into effect for things controlled by
       | "foreign adversaries" (pre-defined as China, Cuba, Iran, North
       | Korea, Russia, and Venezuela-under-Maduro) and their subjects.
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       | So in practical effect this is going to touch things from China
       | and Russia, and wouldn't touch Ring, as it's controlled by
       | Amazon. (Though the government already has pretty substantial
       | access to Ring footage.)
        
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