PASS THIS BILL: America Strikes Back Against Foreign Censors With the Rulli GRANITE Act, HR 10174.

The GRANITE Act is a bill to stop foreign governments from censoring Americans on the Internet.

Per reporting in the Times, a federal GRANITE Act, the “Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny and Extortion Act,” was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Michael Rulli of Ohio.

Representative Rulli’s GRANITE Act is the first federal foreign censorship shield bill in American history.

The bill text is available in full at congress.gov.

A GRANITE Act amends U.S. law to make foreign censorship threats against Americans toothless. The threat alone, even a threat that would be very difficult to enforce, is enough to chill speech and restrict the American marketplace of ideas.

Today, foreign governments threaten Americans for their online speech on a daily basis. Those threats must stop.

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