Essentially, it says that the government is allowed to restrict anything on the internet that they don’t like. FOIA requests do not apply to this act, so you will never know what led to their decision, who made it, or what was done about it. Laws that prohibit lobbyists from working for the government also don’t apply, which means that lobbyists will have the ability to advise the government about what to restrict. Attempts to evade these restrictions, such as by using TOR or a VPN are prohibited, and punishable by a fine of up to $1M and/or up to 20 years in prison. Running a service that allows someone to evade these restrictions carries the same penalties, except that any revenue made in the process of doing so, along with any tangible or intangible property used to do so, becomes property of the US government. The government can also require services to log whatever data they want, and get those logs whenever they please.
This is very very bad, even for the US.
Essentially, it says that the government is allowed to restrict anything on the internet that they don’t like. FOIA requests do not apply to this act, so you will never know what led to their decision, who made it, or what was done about it. Laws that prohibit lobbyists from working for the government also don’t apply, which means that lobbyists will have the ability to advise the government about what to restrict. Attempts to evade these restrictions, such as by using TOR or a VPN are prohibited, and punishable by a fine of up to $1M and/or up to 20 years in prison. Running a service that allows someone to evade these restrictions carries the same penalties, except that any revenue made in the process of doing so, along with any tangible or intangible property used to do so, becomes property of the US government. The government can also require services to log whatever data they want, and get those logs whenever they please.