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@coolboymew
This is classic tiktok clickbait and imo a fine example of why I'm personally all for banning the app.

He outright says "your home network", puts heavy emphasis on "wireless local area networks" (which clearly refers to WISPs and similar... Otherwise, I guess ethernets safe huehuehue), and then gestures to his home router and says "So all of this"

Now unless my bugeating friend here is hosting services for over a million people, I'm sure his super elite homelab is gonna be free from...

We'll now hold on! That's just a list! What exactly are we gonna be free from? Let's have a look.... [Pic 1]

The Secretary needs to "evaluate" whether or not the things listed will be a part of whatever's going on in sections 3 and 4... Before all others. It's a list of things to prioritize. A list of things to look at first and foremost. Also notice how it's not "These things" it's "Equipment that's sold for use in these things"

So what's going on in sections 3 and 4 anyway? [Pic 2]

In simple terms, the authority to block telecom providers from purchasing equipment that could be sabotaged or surveiled by a foreign power. Specific foreign powers are listed. I included the definition of "transaction" before section 3, as that makes this a bit more obvious. Section 3 applies to "covered transactions"

Section 4 [Pic 4] directs the Secretary to produce for the president a report of holdings that might be unacceptably in the control of a foreign power. But... What's a holding? Maybe that's where the wifi is?

Nope. [Pic 4] A holding is stocks and shares and equities derivatives and all sorts of rich people stuff. So... Not your home router.

That's an awful lot of info, and unfortunately it's also a very very short analysis of a very short part of the document, to debunk one FUD-sowing video.

Maybe if I did a little dance, it'd be easier to digest for the zoomers?

@sjw

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