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The '''Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act'''<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521</ref> passed the House of Representatives on March 13, 2024. This analysis will explain in plain language what it can be made to do.
I've told you it's called X so many times and you still keep calling it Twitter. I'm actually so fucking devastated. I can't believe you would say such a thing as to call my beloved x.com platform by the wrong name. It's now owned by our lord and savior Elon Musk, who graciously gifted upon us the X branding. I love X so fucking much. You couldn't even comprehend just how many hours I've put into the X platform, I post an X every day. None of this fucking tweet bullshit, it's called an X. Do you understand how important X is to me? I live and breathe fucking X. I post an X whenever something important happens on my life. My X followers learned of the birth of my first child when I posted my most popular X on X.com. And you think it's funny to just steamroll over that with all this twitter talk? I mean, who does you think you are? This behavior is not what Elon had in mind when taking over as CEO of X. It literally says X at the top of the page, the app is called X. I don't even know what to say to you right now. How dare you. I'll be posting an X about this conversation in the near future, so I hope you get a taste of how you made me feel next time you're scrolling on X.
==Definitions==
These definitions are arranged so that a definition that relies on another definition does not appear before it, and will be in bold when used in the remainder of this analysis.
 
A "foreign adversary country" is China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran<ref>[https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:10%20section:4872%20edition:prelim) 10 USC 4872(d)(2)]</ref>.
 
"Controlled by a foreign adversary" means residing, headquartered, having "its principal place of business in" or organized under the laws of a '''foreign adversary country''' (2(h)(1)).
 
A "covered company" is one that operates a website, desktop or mobile app, or AR/VR app:
* where you can make an account to "generate, share, and view text, images, videos, real-time communications, or similar content" (2(h)(2)(A)(i))
* has more than 1,000,000 active users in 2 of the 3 months before the determination is made (2(h)(2)(A)(ii))
* lets any user generate or distribute content that other users of it can see (2(h)(2)(A)(iii))
* lets any user see content generated by other users (2(h)(2)(A)(iv))<br />
However, it excludes apps for product, business, and travel reviews.
 
A "foreign adversary controlled application" is a website, desktop or mobile app, "or augmented or immersive technology application" that is run by:
* ByteDance, TikTok, any subsidiary or successor of them that is '''controlled by a foreign adversary''', or any entity owned or controlled by them (2(h)(3)(A)).
* any '''covered company''' that is '''controlled by a foreign adversary''' and "is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States" after a public notice and a report to Congress at least 30 days before the determination (2(h)(3)(B)).
 
A "qualified divestiture" is one which "the President determines, through an interagency process" would stop a '''foreign adversary controlled application''' from being '''controlled by a foreign adversary''' and "any operational relationship" from being established between its US operations and any of its former affiliates that remain '''controlled by a foreign adversary''', such as any "cooperation with respect to" content recommendation algorithms or data sharing (2(h)(6)).
 
An "internet hosting service" includes VPNs, DNS, and file and cloud hosting (2(h)(5)).

Revision as of 14:41, 15 March 2024

I've told you it's called X so many times and you still keep calling it Twitter. I'm actually so fucking devastated. I can't believe you would say such a thing as to call my beloved x.com platform by the wrong name. It's now owned by our lord and savior Elon Musk, who graciously gifted upon us the X branding. I love X so fucking much. You couldn't even comprehend just how many hours I've put into the X platform, I post an X every day. None of this fucking tweet bullshit, it's called an X. Do you understand how important X is to me? I live and breathe fucking X. I post an X whenever something important happens on my life. My X followers learned of the birth of my first child when I posted my most popular X on X.com. And you think it's funny to just steamroll over that with all this twitter talk? I mean, who does you think you are? This behavior is not what Elon had in mind when taking over as CEO of X. It literally says X at the top of the page, the app is called X. I don't even know what to say to you right now. How dare you. I'll be posting an X about this conversation in the near future, so I hope you get a taste of how you made me feel next time you're scrolling on X.