https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/cosponsors?s=1&r=15
Text of the bill:
(B) COVERED ENTITIES.—The entities described in this subparagraph are:
(i) a foreign adversary;
(ii) an entity subject to the jurisdiction of, or organized under the laws of, a foreign adversary; and
(iii) an entity owned, directed, or controlled by a person described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
(8) FOREIGN ADVERSARY.—The term “foreign adversary”—
(A) means any foreign government or regime, determined by the Secretary, pursuant to sections 3 and 5, to have engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons; and
(B) includes, unless removed by the Secretary pursuant to section 6— (i) the People’s Republic of China, including the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region; (ii) the Republic of Cuba; (iii) the Islamic Republic of Iran; (iv) the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; (v) the Russian Federation; and (vi) the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros.
Based on the hyperventilating I've seen on the internet over the last few days, a lot of people have the wrong idea about this bill and think it applies broadly to all companies and all people. It does not. It only applies to the specific countries above, with said list capable of being amended by the Secretary of Commerce through a 180 day review process.
Only an agent of the Russian government trying to pretend to be otherwise - real or self-appointed - would take such aggressive offense to being called out on his obvious advocacy for the russian government.
It only applies to companies which are owned by enemy foreign governments, so yes, if a company owned by an enemy foreign government, like Russian propaganda source RT, is banned from operating in the US, the only way to get in trouble under this law is to act as an enemy agent by trying to help RT circumvent the ban. 100% deserved to go to prison for acting as an enemy spy.
It's not a power grab. You're just mad Russia got targeted. If this was a China-only bill you'd probably have supported it.
Great, now where is that substantiation for "we all"? You can't even produce one person, and you don't even realize that you're making an absolute laughing stock out of yourself.
So... by for example, providing archiving services. Fascinating how you support bans on media, and then support a 20 year jail sentence for anyone who helps evade media bans.
Think of a second argument beyond RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA. BTW, Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald have the correct position on this as well.
Holy literal fucking Kafkatrap batman.
Nope. He calls me a CIA agent and I don't give a shit because as someone who actually is not a CIA agent, it isn't a big deal to me.
But if I WAS a CIA agent, I'd probably be very upset at being caught out.