In our last podcast, we talked a lot about Tennessee legislative stuff, a whole bunch of stuff that's been going on.

And we have been extremely busy with that for the last several days.

It's very tiring and exhausting.

And so we're not going to talk about that in this podcast.

We're going to talk about federal legislation.

Music We're going to talk about federal legislation. Welcome back to the T-Rex Talk podcast, the official podcast of T-Rex Arms, where we equip serious citizens.

And today we're going to be talking about the Restrict Act, which is a federal bill

that adds a lot of control to the United States government. It just gives them the authority

to control a lot of the internet. And we're going to talk about this bill, not so much

because of specific legislative action that we want you to take, but just so that you can be

better informed about stuff that is going on and make some better decisions, be better equipped

for stuff that's going to happen in the future, just being ready for various changes that are

happening. And I think that a lot of us probably need to make some changes to the way that we use

apps,

devices, and the internet, which makes the restrict act a great topic because it says that we need more control over our apps, devices, and data on the internet. I believe there's also a very

important comprehension conversation to be had. The way that rhetoric works around bills like this is

extremely important. So we're going to be talking about false dichotomies, false premises,

the presuppositions that people demand that you discuss a particular bill or issue inside of.

That's that's kind of an important topic to get to. But let's talk about the Restrict

act very quickly. This here is one of those bills that has a fancy acronym name. Restrict

stands for restricting the emergence of security threats that risk information and communications

technology, which is a super dumb thing to call

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