| > Why is congress not involved if it's so important? Congress creates laws. The President enforces them. This is an enforcement action--it's not unusual for Congress to be uninvolved. > Should the president really have this power? Multiple Congresses gave these powers to the President [1][2][3]. The current and next ones are free to take them back. My personal belief is no, the President shouldn't have this power in the absence of clear and present danger. We need a commission, likely under Commerce and/or State, that assesses civil fines and passes prosecution recommendations to the DoJ. Furthermore, we need legislation describing (a) which countries are deemed economically friendly and economically adversarial, (b) how those determinations are made and (c) what companies from those countries can and cannot do as well as (d) how they may achieve "safe harbor" status (e.g. by locally hosting data and submitting code for periodic review). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Econom... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon–Florio_Amendment [3] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/international/Docum... |
You make some fair points, but there is no way that I would trust a government agency to actually do code reviews and verify that a company isn't doing something wrong.
I feel increasingly unsafe because this app is being operated by a company that is beyond extradition with the USA. So if they ARE busted for doing bad stuff, who is getting jailed?
In an era where every snapdragon SoC seems rootable from any old application, and you can use machine learning to pick out key words from text streams, do we really need this app in the market?