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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by duringmath on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:59AM (#35368213)
Nope. Didn't even click it.

Prosecutors use the arduous court system to force their victims to accept pleas.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by gruez on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:03AM (#35368245)
That might be true, but it still doesn't change the fact that you're unlikely to get 20 years for accessing tiktok over VPN. You might get some sort of prison sentence (or none, too lazy to look up the exact guidelines), but saying 20 years is pure hyperbole.
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by matheusmoreira on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:11AM (#35368313)
> saying 20 years is pure hyperbole

The law says "up to 20 years". Therefore, american citizens can be imprisoned for 20 years over this bullshit. Don't minimize it.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by duringmath on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:08AM (#35368289)
It says "20 years" in the damn bill.
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by gruez on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:09AM (#35368298)
Clearly you're not willing to read my footnote a few comments ago and as a result we're talking in circles. Consider this my last reply to you.
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by concordDance on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:00AM (#35368655)
He's doing an apple's to apples comparison in his head: Rapists get a headline sentence of 20 years, so VPN users getting the same sentence is insane.
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by wonnage on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:05AM (#35369117)
No you see, you guys gotta read his footnote about a wholly unrelated topic
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by ifdefdebug on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:53AM (#35370734)
> unlikely to get 20 years ...

20 years for being a teenager and watching shitty vlogs and memes? "unlikely" doesn't cut it, anything less than "impossible" should be unacceptable.

> You might get some sort of prison

Again: WHAT? go to prison for watching shitty vlogs and memes? You guys are really reaching Saudi Arabia levels with this law, how can you be so complacent with that?

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