DC Dirty Laundry BY ETHAN HUFF
Under the pretense of protecting national security, two United States senators, Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tom Thune (R-S.D.), have introduced a bipartisan bill that, if passed, will mean the end of the First Amendment.
Touted by the media as the “TikTok ban,” S.686 will supposedly stop foreign adversaries like communist China from interfering with and spying on Americans and American interests. The truth, however, is that its passage would spell the end of free speech online.
As stated in the bill, the RESTRICT Act gives the executive branch, meaning the presidency, the power to “[enforce] any mitigation measure to address any risk” regarding a “current, past, or potential future transaction” with what it deems to be a foreign adversary, i.e., communist China or Russia.
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