Imposes these restrictions on any person, organization, or company, or group that
- has members that were or are claimed to be even so much as "influenced by the russians."
- in any way shape or form, "aided the russians" even indirectly, as second or third order effects. I.e. "this helped x, which helped y, which helped z, who supports russia"
(vii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Government of the Russian Federation
Sec. 2. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order include: (a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; and (b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
In other words if they claim its russian, or they claim a member of russia, say used Gab, or poal, or bought a gun at a gun shop, or shopped at a store or engaged with maybe a small business they want shut down?
De-facto able to shut it down under this pretext.
I'm not sure people appreciate what second and third order connections really imply. If a person so much as posted a 'russian' meme and you liked or upvoted it, you are 1 hop. So everyone that OP knows is 0, everyone you know is 1, everyone known by everyone you know is 2, and everyone known by everyone known by everyone known by you is 3. Just add whatever connective pretense necessary to justify the attack and you are good to go.
It's literally everyone this forum simply by interacting with potentially any other member of this forum who is also active on a chan, or a subreddit, or a group, where something undesirable was said... It's everyone and anyone in the United States.
It's the end of even the pretense of law.
I think it was the NSA who did a study and said in fact, the world is so connected now, that on average 3-4 billion have at most 3 degrees of separation in one form or another, which by itself is sufficient to use the powers of the state against anyone.
This is about justifying using state level powers for any reason at all, with the russians as a pretext.
The u.s. is a dictatorship, and congress and the pentagon are dictators.
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