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Subject: We must oppose the S.686 - the RESTRICT act [telecom]
Date: 1 May 2023 10:21:03 -0400
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by: The Telecom Digest - Mon, 1 May 2023 14:21 UTC

The Senate is currently considering a law that could make censorship
in the United States much easier. It’s called the RESTRICT Act, and
while it’s still early in the legislative process, the bill already
has bipartisan support.

In its current state, the RESTRICT Act gives the feds massive power to
monitor and police U.S. citizens online. It does so by allowing the
Secretary of Commerce to conduct security reviews of tech that is even
partially owned by companies from any “foreign adversary.” (Who is a
foreign adversary? Any country the secretary says. Seriously.)

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* Moderator's Note
* * The one thing which gets the attention of elected officials is
* numbers, and the only way to be counted is to write a hand-written
* note to both of your senatos and to your Congressman. They ignore
* all electronic messages - their software counts the keywords, and
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* * They do, however, pay a LOT of attention to hand-written letters.
* They are impossible to forge (No, you can't just use a "script"
* font), and they are the most certain way I know of to be sure you'll
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* * Bill Horne
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by: Marco Moock - Tue, 2 May 2023 17:05 UTC

Am 01.05.2023 um 10:21:03 Uhr schrieb The Telecom Digest:

> In its current state, the RESTRICT Act gives the feds massive power to
> monitor and police U.S. citizens online. It does so by allowing the
> Secretary of Commerce to conduct security reviews of tech that is even
> partially owned by companies from any “foreign adversary.” (Who is a
> foreign adversary? Any country the secretary says. Seriously.)

Similar political ideas exist in Germany - maybe this even affects free
software and open source.

The GNU/Linux community fears that there are bans of certain hardware
that doesn't have US backdoors included.

Subject	Author
We must oppose the S.686 - the RESTRICT act [telecom]	The Telecom Digest
We must oppose the S.686 - the RESTRICT act [telecom]	Marco Moock