UsecMyNuts t1_jeddzdm wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:00 AM

Reply to comment by VelveteenAmbush in Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America by vriska1

The bill allows a punishment of 20 years prison and a $250k-$1m fine for posting anything, and I mean anything the government finds unsavoury online.

By this law it’s possible that playing a video game and talking about guns/bombs could land you in jail for 20 years and all of your property is seized by the government.

Once you’re labelled a threat to national security they can search any of your computers, phones, notebooks, social media’s for anything that they deem unsavoury and take quite literally anything out of context and use it against you.

Tweeted a meme about 9/11? Jail

Called a politician an asshole? Jail

Watching YouTube videos about Islam? Believe it or not straight to jail.

SpiritualOrangutan t1_jedvmxn wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:54 AM

Source? Saw nothing indicating that when I looked the law up

Bannon9k t1_jeeoldm wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:53 PM

Same source as all redditors... He made it up.

The law is shitty for sure, but not how this guy is thinking. It's shitty because it was written poorly, not because the "guvment comin to get ya"

ms1711 t1_jeevwkt wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:43 PM

Because it's definitely not written "badly" and vague on purpose! The government never oversteps its bounds!

Well-written laws are narrow and clear. Any room for "interpretation" is room for abuse.

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