[cheriot]

> The Restrict Act basically allows the US to impose Chinese-level censorship across the "Western" internet and persecute any one in the US who helps circumvent the censorship.

This statement is at least as misleading as the "Tiktok ban" rhetoric you're criticizing.

[awuji]

How? They could declare everything and anything as antidemocratic. There is legitimately no oversight to the Secretary of Commerce, which is an appointed position.

If the act is passed, the only thing stopping the government from taking it to such an extreme is the self-control of the government itself. That isn't very reassuring.

[cheriot]

My understanding is that it only applies to foreign entities. Still overly broad, but a far cry from the claims of censorship.