Quick political update video, but for once, it's not about firearms.

Welcome back to another episode of T-Rex Talk, and this one we're going to be talking about

the, it's a very interesting bill. It's not one that we've talked about

before, but it is claiming to be a TikTok banning bill, just like the Restrict Act, which we have

talked about before. We've talked about it on the podcast and then also on a video that is up on

the T-Rex Labs YouTube channel, which I will link to below. But the new bill is not the Restrict Act.

The Restrict Act gave the government a huge amount of control and was marketed as a way to ban TikTok.

Depending on who they were talking to, the proponents of this bill would say we were banning TikTok

because it is under the control of

an evil Chinese power and it takes control over young people.

And for other people, they said the other things that people don't like TikTok for,

like the dancing.

Well, the Restrict Act stalled because a whole bunch of cybersecurity security experts and civil rights people and so forth

were troubled by the huge amount of control that it gave the federal government over all kinds

of stuff on the internet, not just TikTok, but an incredible about of control over large corporations

that have app stores, the centralized

information control, but even penalties for people who try to bypass those restrictions.

So there's a new bill, and it is called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled

Applications Act, which of course sounds great. Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which of course sounds great. Protecting Americans

from foreign adversary controlled applications, you know that American controlled applications

are so good and so full of true information that obviously we would want to just keep this particular

trend rolling, which is essentially what this bill does.

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