It passed a week after the TikTok divestment bill.

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      8 months ago

      Why would they stop the easy way around needing warrants to spy on citizens?

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      Because that would be effective.

      The house doesn’t care about americans or effective governance. Domestic adversaries are of far more consequence to americans.

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      More like good news for foreign non-adversarial middlemen who have no problem selling it to those nations for a cut. If you don’t prevent the data collection from taking place it will still get passed around.