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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by gruez on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:10AM (#35372116)
>Furthermore, some have pointed out that the language of the bill could force providers to start tracking what users do.

Source?

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by haswell on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:03AM (#35373734)
Here are two discussion subthreads that go down this path, and most of the threads here on HN have some variation of this exploration [0] [1].

The key issue seems to be the very open ended language about attempting to circumvent or aiding in the circumvention of any enacted restrictions.

As written, this seems to potentially impact both users of VPNs and VPN providers.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367684

- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35369570

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