from stoptherestrictact.org:

A dangerous new bill called the RESTRICT Act (S.686) is gaining momentum in Congress, with support from  Democrats and Republicans, and even the White House. The bill claims to address valid privacy and security concerns with TikTok. But this is about so much more than just TikTok. RESTRICT gives Biden (and all future presidents!) extraordinary new powers to ban Americans from using entire apps simply by claiming they pose a “threat to national security,” outside of any democratic process. Politicians are pushing this bill to show how “tough on China,” they are, but instead of protecting us, they’re pushing for an Internet policed by the government––just like the Internet is in China. 

If this bill is signed into law, it will give the federal government the power to ban ANYTHING deemed to be a tool of foreign adversaries. They are just using Tiktok as their Trojan horse.

RT News? It’s the official media outlet of Russia…a foreign adversary.

Imgsrc, the “photo sharing” site used by pedophiles to trade CSAM? It’s a Russian website which means…hosted by a foreign adversary. Forget about getting 10 years in prison for downloading CSAM. Try getting 20 years in prison for just visiting the homepage.

But what about the headline where I said Linux can be banned?

Ubuntu Kylin and Deepin. That’s why.

In the case of Ubuntu Kylin, it is indeed a version of Ubuntu that has been tailored for Chinese users and has received endorsement from the Chinese government in the past. Deepin, on the other hand, is a Linux distribution developed by a company based in China. The fact that these distributions have ties to China could make them subjects of interest under the RESTRICT Act, given the current geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China.

It is quite possible that the U.S. government could force Canonical to. Lock Americans from downloading Ubuntu Kylin or accessing the software packages – apt and snap – used for Ubuntu Kylin with the threat of banning Ubuntu Linux altogether in America if Canonical fails to comply.