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.<p>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.)
Impossible to even tell whats real anymore, the sheer amount of absurd nonsense coming out of the West (as in, USA+friends, Europe, etc) at the moment honestly I wouldn't be surprised at any of this
While the language of the bill is certainly way too broad and confusing, there's also a lot of fearmongering + exaggeration going on...<p>E.g. I'm hearing folks talk about criminalizing VPN use... but the bill does lay out <i>very</i> high standards for any criminal liability