This guy is claiming it's gonna get people locked up for using a VPN because that's "circumventing a geofence". Using a VPN would not qualify; a business trying to conceal how many users it had in the US (to claim it was under 1m) or registering a shell company in a friendly country (say Tencent registered a business in the EU) would qualify. You'd have to try to circumvent that law, and this guy is going all "And *this* circumvents things!" and it doesn't circumvent provisions of that law, which is what that section applies to, which means it has nothing to do with that. All of these videos, all of the arguments, these are "Some dude reads a chunk of the text in isolation and makes up bullshit".
I stopped watching the video after that. I am really not going to start being concerned about this until a constitutional lawyer is. The amount of bullshit around this law has passed the level of "maybe random youtube dickhead has something interesting to say". Random Youtube dickhead has burned me every time on this: it's all retards. I don't know if he's a shill or if he's just an idiot that fell for the psyop. The text of the bill has none of this scary shit in it, and the only reason anyone is saying anything about it is because some random internet dipshits keep panicking about it.
The psyop might not be Chinese anyway. It might be American. It might exist entirely to distract from the "require an ID to use the internet" bill in the Senate that is suspiciously like the first steps to the "Digital Identity" the WEF proposed: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/davos-agenda-digital-identity-frameworks/ . (That came from cool_boy_mew (npub135j…vj4p) , in https://shitposter.club/objects/0dbc5216-4249-4fd4-be93-611b0a994ee2 .) Purely by coincidence, it's simultaneously being pushed in the US Senate ( https://fcw.com/digital-government/2023/03/senate-committee-advances-open-source-software-and-digital-identity-bills/384583/ ) and also the UK Parliament ( https://www.cityam.com/why-i-tabled-an-amendment-to-the-financial-services-and-markets-bill-on-digital-id/ ) and in Arkansas ( https://talkbusiness.net/2023/03/governor-lawmakers-push-bill-to-require-age-verification-for-social-media-usage/ ) and in Florida ( https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-lawmaker-coming-after-internet-porn-introduces-age-verification-bill/ ) and I got tired of clicking after that. So maybe all of these people making up shit to stoke the panic over this stupid SB686 stuff are not covering for Tencent, maybe they're covering for US politicians that are pushing actually terrible shit.
So I don't want to miss the actual bad shit because of people freaking out about the SB 686 Nothingburger. The panic is based on nothing but people hearing someone else panicking: dude hands a bunch of fireworks to children, the children set off the fireworks, this covers the sound of gunfire. The only way to avoid that psyop is to wait for something real and avoid caring about commentary about commentary about commentary about the text of the bill.
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