From: mo01@posteo.de   
      
   Am 01.05.2023 um 10:21:03 Uhr schrieb The Telecom Digest:   
      
   > In its current state, the RESTRICT Act gives the feds massive power to   
   > monitor and police U.S. citizens online. It does so by allowing the   
   > Secretary of Commerce to conduct security reviews of tech that is even   
   > partially owned by companies from any “foreign adversary.” (Who is a   
   > foreign adversary? Any country the secretary says. Seriously.)   
      
   Similar political ideas exist in Germany - maybe this even affects free   
   software and open source.   
      
   The GNU/Linux community fears that there are bans of certain hardware   
   that doesn't have US backdoors included.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)