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How the House revived the TikTok ban before most of us noticed

3 pointsby herpderperatorabout 1 year ago

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samstaveabout 1 year ago
Utter garbage:<p>&gt;<i>The authors worked with stakeholders and the White House and Department of Justice for months to address concerns — including concerns about whether the legislation could violate the constitution. Even after all the work, Krishnamoorthi told reporters that the 352 votes the bill received “was not predicted.”</i><p>&gt;<i>“That’s a testament to the power of the bill and the concern about ByteDances’ ownership of TikTok,” he said.</i><p>-<p><i>...stakeholders...</i> &lt;-- explicitely define and name [stakehoders]<p><i>...concern about ByteDances’ ownership....</i> &lt;-- and the assumed US based owner would be whom? And where would the firehose go?<p>-<p>If the concern is that the firehose currently points to China, and we are worried that we are being syphoned for PII nationally - but the assumption is that US ownership does exactly what to the PII firehose? Who is consuming the meta off such a flow?<p>And is it just assumed that we what, splice off a feed?<p>How does this work specifically from a data, PII, protections, ownership, routing, hosting, costing, support, etc side?<p>--<p>EDIT -- I forgot the best part:<p>&gt;&gt;<i>“It was a 12 page bill,” Gallagher said of the speed right after the vote. “I mean, it wasn’t like an omnibus that we just shoved in people’s faces. Even a member of Congress could read 12 pages in a matter of hours.”</i><p>12 pages.<p>POST THE FN BILL.<p>---<p>Am I being obtuse?