Noem blocks South Dakota business with certain companies owned or controlled by 'evil foreign governments' - Fox News

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem signed an enforcement bid Friday that prevents the authorities from doing concern with peculiar telecommunications companies owned oregon operated by "evil overseas governments."

The order, according to Noem's office, blocks concern with companies associated with the governments of China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela. 

Kristi Noem, politician of South Dakota, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference successful Orlando Feb. 25, 2022. (Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In addition, Noem's bureau said the order, known arsenic Executive Order 2023-02, requires that "every authorities declaration see a clause certifying the contractor is not owned, influenced, oregon affiliated with these countries."

"It is captious that we support South Dakotans from evil overseas governments," Noem said aft signing the order, which volition instrumentality effect adjacent week. "This bid ensures that these countries cannot leverage telecommunications oregon authorities declaration procurements to summation entree to important authorities infrastructure and data."

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"Maintaining the cybersecurity of South Dakota authorities authorities is indispensable to proceed to service South Dakota citizens," the bid states. "The Chinese Communist Party has progressively purchased captious cultivation onshore indispensable to the nation's nutrient independency and existent spot adjacent captious infrastructure, specified arsenic existent spot adjacent a subject basal successful Grand Folks, North Dakota."

Additionally, the bid stated that South Dakota is "home to captious infrastructure captious to nationalist security" and that "cybersecurity vulnerabilities whitethorn pb to real-world consequences for South Dakota residents."

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"Countries including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea person engaged successful progressively assertive cyber-attacks connected the United States' assets, including Iranian financially-motivated ransomware operations, Russian phishing attempts, Chinese targeted extractions of firm data, cyber-attacks connected important ports since 2013, and the cyber and carnal targeting of electrical grid stations successful Washington, North Carolina, and different states successful precocious 2022," the bid noted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Getty Images)

Last November, Noem made headlines erstwhile she signed an enforcement order prohibiting authorities agencies — oregon those who declaration with them — from accessing the China-owned societal media app TikTok and warned the Chinese Communist Party is ripping accusation from users.

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"It's disconnected our networks. It's blocked disconnected of our servers. Any authorities employee, anybody who contracts with the authorities of South Dakota, anybody who uses immoderate of our systems nary longer volition beryllium capable to download oregon utilize this app due to the fact that of the nationalist information menace that it is," Noem told Fox News astatine the time.

Accessing the app volition beryllium a transgression offense, she said, adding TikTok poses a menace to the Mount Rushmore State and the idiosyncratic information of each South Dakotans and, by extension, Americans.

Fox News' Charles Creitz contributed to this article.