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Seems fairly written to me.


My issue is that this could be applied very broadly:

> (B) a covered company that—

> (i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and

> (ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—

> (I) a public notice proposing such determination; and

> (II) a public report to Congress, submitted not less than 30 days before such determination, describing the specific national security concern involved and containing a classified annex and a description of what assets would need to be divested to execute a qualified divestiture.

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The above gives the president the ability to shut down many websites out there from operating in the US if they are "controlled by a foreign adversary". Btw, the definition is here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872, which says: "Covered nation.—The term “covered nation” means— (A)the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea; (B)the People’s Republic of China; (C)the Russian Federation; and (D)the Islamic Republic of Iran."


It's less bad than I'd expected. I half expected that the "owned or controlled by a foreign adversary" text wouldn't be there.




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