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Date Posted: 11:08:09 4/02/23 Sun
Author: Jasper
Subject: A rope makes a good restrictor.

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"The RESTRICT Act has been garnering bipartisan momentum in the Senate, as well as backing from the Biden administration, as a workable solution to address the emergent risk posed by foreign ICT products and services to national security," The National Law Review summarized last week. "If passed, the RESTRICT Act would provide the secretary of commerce broad authority to take appropriate measures to deal with identified risks, and to enforce such measures with hefty civil and criminal penalties."

Of course, this being the 21st century, the bill also grants the president new power to take actions regarding "undue or unacceptable risk" posed by information and communications technology (ICT).

That's a huge grant of authority to address the supposed peril posed by TikTok. What does it all mean?

Use your imagination; government officials implementing the law certainly will.

No, It's Not Just About TikTok
"VPNs would be covered in the RESTRICT Act led by Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) that would require the Commerce Department to evaluate the national security risks of foreign technology," The Washington Post's Tim Starks writes.

"Warner said Chinese VPNs were the sort of apps that cry out for a systemic review like that proposed in the bill, which would allow the Commerce Department to examine apps on national security grounds," Starks's colleague Joseph Menn reported this week.

But the legislation doesn't stop there. The bill's reference to "digital economy" also raises eyebrows.

https://reason.com/2023/03/31/the-restrict-act-would-restrict-a-lot-more-than-tiktok/

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