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WATCH: Tucker Issues Dire Warning To Americans About “Patriot Act For The Internet”

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Cable news ratings king Tucker Carlson spent some time on his show Monday evening warning Americans about the RESTRICT Act, a bipartisan bill to ban TikTok, and the stunning federal overreach that it would allow on the internet.

“The bill is ostensibly about protecting American national security and ending ‘foreign adversaries’ from interfering in our elections through apps like TikTok. Because of course, election interference from Twitter and Facebook is no problem at all, but election interference through TikTok is totally unacceptable,” Carlson began.

“But in reality, if you are opposed to TikTok, as we are, this bill isn’t really about banning TikTok, it’s never about what they say it is,” he continued.

“Instead, this bill would give enormous and terrifying new powers to the federal government to punish American citizens and regulate how they communicate with one another.”

Carlson then went on to explain that the legislation would give the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Commerce, and not the elected Congress, the ability to decide who qualifies as a “foreign adversary.”

Carlson then explained how simply opposing the war in Ukraine – which the DNI or Department of Commerce could explain as being involved with “foreign adversaries” – could land an American in prison for two decades:

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So if the Biden Administration decides that you are doing this, then the Secretary of Commerce can “enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk arising from any covered action by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.”

These transactions can cover future, past or potential future transactions. And the current mitigation measures include but are not limited to throwing American citizens in prison for 20 years.

So you would be allowing the Biden Administration to regulate speech on the Internet and if you are somehow involved with a “foreign adversary,” say oppose the war against Russia, you’d go to prison for 20 years.

He then rebuked the notion that this bill would combat China, arguing that the “Patriot Act of the internet,” as it’s been dubbed, simply makes the United States more like our communist foes to the East.

This is not an effort to push back against China, it is part of a strategy to make America much more like China, with the government in charge of what you read and see and with terrifying punitive powers at their fingertips.

We’ve seen this before from the national security state again and again. Confronted with a foreign adversary, for example, after 9/11, the federal government uses the opportunity to expand their police powers over the American population and they do it under false pretexts and they do it quickly by whipping people into a panic, usually that’s rooted in some truth.

These measures are not aimed at stopping the foreign threat, they are aimed at controlling the American population.

Conservative operative Greg Price shared the text of the bill to Twitter Wednesday, arguing that it would give the U.S. government the ability to access every electronic device of any American deemed a ‘national security risk.’

“The bill to ban TikTok is absolutely terrifying. It gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light,” Price wrote.

“This is a Patriot Act for the internet.”

 



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