US Senate bill S-686 (AKA the RESTRICT act) targetting Tiktok allows the US government to ban ANY website, then make it a FELONY for any person to use a VPN, tor, etc to access such sites when they move to servers out of reach of the US government.

While I myself do not use anyone’s closed source apps (Same policy Tiktok, Google, and Facebook) this bill is not about anyone’s safety online. Rather the government is freaking out because one of the platforms they do not control (true equally of Tiktok, Mastodon, noblogs, blackblogs, etc) has suddently become commonly used for organizing against them.

Millions including the author of this post will publicly defy this law. If this passes I will make a Tiktok account on dedicated hardware used for nothing else, and dare the DOJ to do anything about it. I burned a grand jury subpeona and will treat an arrest warrant for visiting a banned website the same way. Bring it on, make my day!