Folks, I’ve heard rampant misinformation about the RESTRICT Act expanding surveillance – that is not what the RESTRICT Act does at all. It’s focused on countering surveillance by foreign governments – it doesn’t censor what you can say or surveil your phone or search history.

It will be used to ban any social media company that doesn't comply with government demands, which absolutely puts our information and our freedom at risk.

It just prescribes a 20 year prison term and a $1,000,000 fine if I use a VPN to hide that information from your attempts to surveil it.

Q1: If my teenager accesses a banned app via a VPN, what is the maximum prison sentence my child may receive? Q2: What is the maximum prison sentence a parent may receive?

We don't trust you. The RESTRICT Act will censor the internet and put Americans in jail for 20 years for using VPNs.

Sen. Warner, please don't talk down to us like we can't read. Some of us actually understand technology and know what the bill says. As Sen. @RandPaul stated, this bill is trying to protect us from the Chinese by doing the exact things we condemn the Chinese for. Stop it.

As the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, you've gained a reputation for spreading unreliable and questionable information, making this new RESTRICT Act legislation that you're crafting for yourself yet another surveillance tool in your arsenal of rampant misinformation.

This bill is authoritarian & unAmerican!

Says the guy in the middle of the STEELE DOSSIER . How are you still in office? We know. Time to exit or we will EXIT you with consequences

Nice spin on the RaMpAnT MiSiNfOrMaTiOn about [red herring that avoids valid criticisms]. Please address the specific content of the bill (which we read), as opposed to hiding behind misleading rhetoric and appeals to authority. - section 2.9.a.viii: holding: "any participation, right, or other equivalent, however designated and of any character" by an adversary (overbroad) - 2.17: transaction: "The term “transaction” means any acquisition, importation, transfer, installation, dealing in, or use of any information and communications technology product or service, including ongoing activities such as managed services, data transmission, software updates, repairs, or the provision of data hosting services, or a class of such transactions." (overbroad) - 11.a.2.f: "No person may engage in any transaction or take any other action with intent to evade the provisions of this Act, or any regulation, order, direction, mitigation measure, prohibition, or other authorization or directive issued thereunder." (overbroad) - 11.b.2: civil penalty: up to $250k fine (ouch) - 11.c: criminal penalties: up to 20 years jail time, civil forfeiture, $1m fine (oof) - 12: no jury trials and decisions exempt from judicial review (guh) - 15.2: FOIA exempt - 17: blank check funding appropriation

Brother we can literally read the text of the bill, this is a national travesty and you and your cosponsors should be ashamed of yourselves for even trying to introduce some shit like this again after the patriot act.