The Senate is currently considering a law that could make censorship
in the United States much easier. It’s called the RESTRICT Act, and
while it’s still early in the legislative process, the bill already
has bipartisan support.

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.)

https://go.thefire.org/webmail/869921/1503930501/d9fd308004d8099f4711a5d74c525552769ffc82265d6680ac06999668c284d5

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* Moderator's Note
* * The one thing which gets the attention of elected officials is
* numbers, and the only way to be counted is to write a hand-written
* note to both of your senatos and to your Congressman. They ignore
* all electronic messages - their software counts the keywords, and
* sends them a graph - and they give lip service to typed postal mail
* (some just weigh it).
* * They do, however, pay a LOT of attention to hand-written letters.
* They are impossible to forge (No, you can't just use a "script"
* font), and they are the most certain way I know of to be sure you'll
* be heard.
* * Bill Horne
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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.

By Dan Meyer

Verizon continues to leak executives as long-time network technology
executive Nicola Palmer said she would be retiring from the operator
she has worked at for 33 years.

In a LinkedIn post, Palmer announced she would be retiring in July,
and touted her experience at the operator.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/verizon-long-time-network-exec-nicola-palmer-to-retire/2023/05/

Several area agencies are experiencing phone outages as there is a
widespread outage on multiple networks.

What we know is that both Wayne and Edwards County are having issues
with phone lines as Clearwave is reporting an area-wide outage. White
County Sheriff’s Department as well as Carmi Police are also down. 911
Service is up according to Edwards County Officials. White County
Sheriff’s Department as well as Carmi Police are also down.

https://www.wfiwradio.com/2023/05/04/many-phones-down-as-multiple-service-providers-are-down/