Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse
by gruez on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:37AM
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>The secretary of commerce, or some other figure in that range, talks to the president and they decide yeah, we need to ban those guys.
>They talk to apple, Google, Microsoft, various cloud providers, and say "yeah, you're taking them off your store. You're also not allowed to do any business with them anymore"
Yeah, that's what I thought the law does. I think that's bad for other reasons, but the "omg they're going after your VPNs" rhetoric is over the topp.
Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse
by concordDance on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:10AM
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> I don't think it's likely they end up talking to ISPs to try to cut off the internet side of things, because that's going to take a lot more work and the people given power in this case aren't the sort to try to do that sort of thing.
Given sci-hub is banned at the ISP level here in the UK, I disagree.
Basically what would happen is, Bill gets passed.
The secretary of commerce, or some other figure in that range, talks to the president and they decide yeah, we need to ban those guys.
They talk to apple, Google, Microsoft, various cloud providers, and say "yeah, you're taking them off your store. You're also not allowed to do any business with them anymore".
I don't think it's likely they end up talking to ISPs to try to cut off the internet side of things, because that's going to take a lot more work and the people given power in this case aren't the sort to try to do that sort of thing.
So you're probably never going to be unable to access the website, they're just going to make it a heck of a lot harder to use it, and they're going to cut off all profit motive.