Comment by runako
6 months ago
Just last year, Congress snapped to attention and wrote and quickly passed a bill to ban the eminent national security threat of a video-sharing app. That bill doesn't do anything else.
Just a reminder that Congress, even now, can rapidly act on a laser focus when it is sufficiently motivated.
Perhaps not the best example to choose given that the president managed to fully ignore that law. Tik-Tok remains unbanned to this day despite there being no sale.
It was a perfectly fine example. Nothing in your comment has any relevance to what it's an example of.
The President is ignoring a lot of laws of various vintages. That's not generally under the purview of Congress.
Because almost no voters would be against the bill and it harms almost none of the supporters of representatives
If you think no voters would be against the bill, I would suggest your model of our media landscape could use a refresher.
Can you be more specific? I don't think regular voters care about certain, targeted, tech bills.
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Is there a good summary of that episode somewhere? I've tried to read up on it as I don't really understand how it was an eminent (imminent?) security threat.
Is the TikTok debacle not a way higher profile case?
Did it have a larger financial impact than the tax code issue being discussed here? Absolutely not.
It was higher profile because Congress decided it should be higher profile.
I'm pretty sure that is precisely what GP referenced.
Yeah that’s my point