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Stop RESTRICT Act 🛑 Write your Senator now (or simply copy/paste my letter)

10.8k sats \ 20 comments \ @SatoshiNakanodo 1 Apr 2023 bitcoin

By now you're probably aware of the legislation being fast-tracked through the U.S. Senate called the RESTRICT Act - S.686 supposedly intended to allow for the banning of TikTok and protect us from foreign cyber threats.

Learn more about RESTRICT and how it could threaten Bitcoin as well as your freedom to access information writ large here, here or here.

If you live in the U.S. please consider writing to your Senators (you have two of them) and voice your opposition. Find your Senators' contact info here. You can either copy & paste my letter (below), or draft something a bit more strongly worded on your own. Up to you.

Dear Senator [ ENTER YOUR SENATOR'S LAST NAME ],

I cannot support the proposed Senate Bill S.686 (RESTRICT Act). It is far too broadly worded and as a result I believe it will have unforeseen negative consequences for freedom of speech and access to information.

Any proposed legislation intended to protect The United States and/or its citizens from foreign “Security Threats” (cyber or otherwise) should not impede the freedoms of law-abiding citizens.

The act of accessing information via a website, digital application or any other communication platform should never be considered ‘illegal’ or criminal.

If there are specific threats from specific foreign actors, I believe these should be explicitly identified within the text of this legislation.

Additionally, I believe Congress should be the only entity with the authority to approve mitigating measures against threats to homeland security. These powers should never be delegated away to unelected officials such as the Secretary of Commerce.

I respectfully ask that you reconsider the framing of this legislation.

Sincerely, [ YOUR FULL NAME ]

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 1 Apr 2023

Anyone thinking this doesn’t matter is sorely mistaken. This law is dangerous.

Copy and paste this to your senators now and leave a voicemail at their offices (they do not usually answer calls live so just a quick recording on the phone.

If the USA completely falls to tyranny this is going to be a much worse century for our children.

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @02ad8239c2 2 Apr 2023

This stuff happening at the same time as Bukele passing legislation to stimulate tech enterprise in El Salvador, while multiple countries move away from Dollars a year on from Russia's foreign reserves being sanctioned, and US and Euro banks publicly fail, really shows the acceleration/intensification of the shift that's occurring - the desperation of the US Govt is palpable in these deranged proposals - it's got a real 'The harder they grasp, the more it slips through their fingers' feel to it.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 2 Apr 2023

Thanks! I been meaning to get to this. If you think ignoring politics will lead to bitcoin bliss you are sadly mistaken. Make your voice heard!

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @clr 1 Apr 2023

This proposed legislation is so outrageous that it doesn't worry me.

I tend to worry more about the moderate proposals, because they don't get so much pushback (boiling frog theory).

7 sats \ 3 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo OP 1 Apr 2023

I worry about them all. I'll probably die young.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK 1 Apr 2023

Thanks for Your work, that's really important! But don't lose Your sleep over this clown show. It will be falling apart sooner than they can imagine with their half functioning brain cell.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatoshiNakanodo OP 1 Apr 2023

Thank you! I sleep well at night... Bitcoin is my security blanket.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 1 Apr 2023

!!! That's what I wanted to hear. Nice dreams from Málaga where we have Semana Santa now which is really worth a journey: https://youtu.be/bfRxpVaMO8k

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 1 Apr 2023

Well written.

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @sudonaka 1 Apr 2023

Thank you!

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo OP 1 Apr 2023

Thank YOU. Freedom is lost slowly, then suddenly.

1 sat \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Apr 2023

This is so lame and useless. You stop tyranny not with letter to politicians, but being yourself a sovereign individual and NOT a shitizen, voting and writing letter.

https://i.postimg.cc/PxDL488M/consent-contract.jpg

Simply use Bitcoin wherever you can as money and don't use fiat. Fiat is their power. Bitcoin is their enemy

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @sudonaka 1 Apr 2023

Darth doesn’t live in the US. We in the states are on the frontlines

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Apr 2023

You guys in US are such pussies obeying useless so called laws.

https://i.postimg.cc/zfg1ZssF/you-get-what-you-deserve.gif

Writing letters to politicians is like crying kids because they were grounded.

BE A FUCKING GROWN UP ADULT AND STOP CRYING LIKE A BABY.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo OP 1 Apr 2023

That's cool. But down here on earth, we need to do everything within our power, including using bitcoin AND communicating our beliefs with words/letters/emails.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Apr 2023

good luck fooling yourself with those useless letters. Politicians will have a good laugh reading them.