The Restrict Act would allow the Feds access to all the data on our devices

The specific claim that it would cover Ring seems wrong? The whole thing only comes into effect for things controlled by "foreign adversaries" (pre-defined as China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela-under-Maduro) and their subjects.

So in practical effect this is going to touch things from China and Russia, and wouldn't touch Ring, as it's controlled by Amazon. (Though the government already has pretty substantial access to Ring footage.)

Impossible to even tell whats real anymore, the sheer amount of absurd nonsense coming out of the West (as in, USA+friends, Europe, etc) at the moment honestly I wouldn't be surprised at any of this

While the language of the bill is certainly way too broad and confusing, there's also a lot of fearmongering + exaggeration going on...

E.g. I'm hearing folks talk about criminalizing VPN use... but the bill does lay out very high standards for any criminal liability