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>>southe+(OP)
I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign’s suggested policy of capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets? I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios. Worth thinking about what people are willing to do to not pay billions of dollars worth of taxes.

>>andy_p+ex
if this leads to decrease of censorship, i m not complaining

>>seydor+4N
Tech billionaires kissing up to the far right isn't going to decrease censorship. Maybe make it more palatable to you.

>>kmeist+DQ
a coalition that contains RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk are now far right?

>>jpadki+HT
Don’t assume based on the personalities.

The right are currently targeting facebook and tech firms because they want to be able to influence the ‘algorithm’ to support their policies.

They are current churning out concepts such as the ‘censorship industrial complex’, and finding ways to publicize blame on “liberal Californian tech firms”.

The right wing think tanks are posturing about this from the perspective of free speech - while avoiding getting down into the weeds of trust and safety decision making.

I am on board with better freedom of speech protections - but not someone pontificating on principles, but ignoring the massive amounts of failure when you run moderation on “principles”.

This is where they lose credibility for me, and the power grab becomes apparent.

This letter is almost certainly to appease the Republican Party so that Meta is not dragged into hearings near the election.