The law affects social media apps based in North Korea, China, Iran, and Russia. These four countries are already restricted from participating in sensitive areas of the US economy, with forced sale being an option. The only really novel part of this law is applying such restrictions to software.
charonn0
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And the fact that a foreign adversary obtained this information was very bad, agreed? Clearly, it makes sense to take steps to keep that kind of information out of adversarial hands.
The United Kingdom is not an adversary of the United States. In fact it's one of our closest allies. But, if anything, that suggests this law isn't enough, not that it's too much.
It's not ok.
But the fact is that China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia are adversaries of the United States, and the US government is justified in its concern.
If social media apps exist to slurp up as much user info as possible, and they do, then it makes sense to be concerned about the government that they're subject to.
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It's a British thing.
Nostradamus was right!
That's about 1609 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458^th^ of a second.
A veto means the resolution does not pass in the first place.
It's not too specific, it's narrowly tailored. Which is one of the things it needs to be in order to survive a 1st amendment challenge.