Right, just like how the Patriot act was supposed to be just for anti terrorism and all of a sudden, NSA is wiretapping and gathering data on regular Americans.

That's the problem that you don't seem to understand. This vague and broad wording is giving unelected officials broad and sweeping powers to do so much all in the name of "national security", just like the Patriot act. You have to be really naive to think the government won't abuse this power and stretch the wording to do as much as they want.

I did skim that article tbh cause I'm at work, but let's look at the bill itself.

>(c) Criminal Penalties.—

>(1) IN GENERAL.—A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.

That sure sounds like it isn't for individual users. Sounds like the wording is broad enough to allow for them to use it against anyone.

And yea, btw, politicians lie all the time. Just because he said it, doesn't mean it's true.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?externalTypeCode=is&format=xml&r=15&s=1#id2c07eb4fac7349708176b749d75f9977

https://www.newsweek.com/does-tiktok-ban-allow-20-year-prison-sentence-1790932

Here is that Twitter source for you!

Btw I'm American and personally don't want to see another Patriot act in my lifetime.

Want to know what the punishment will be in the Restrict bill? $250k to $1 million fine, and up to 20 years in prison. Also will be a federal crime.

Sounds a lot worse than 3 days to 5 years.

https://www.newsweek.com/does-tiktok-ban-allow-20-year-prison-sentence-1790932

It's not getting a lot of attention though. I tried looking up the Restrict bill and barely see anything in the news about it. Most only make fun of the hearing, but no one was addressing the actual bill.

Also, Reddit has been completely barren about the bill as well. Most Redditors are still in favor of the bill because they think it's just about banning Tiktok. Funny enough, Tiktok is the platform where it is most talked about. Not Reddit, not YouTube, not mainstream news, but Tiktok. Really makes you wonder why they want to ban it so badly.

It's getting banned because most Americans are too stupid and propagandized to realize that this Restrict bill that will ban Tiktok is also basically the Patriot Act 2.0.