The fight for tech accountability starts now
When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectively donated millions to Trump’s inauguration fund to ensure his favor in a new era of gangster tech regulation. Meta overhauled its content policy to allow calling gay people mentally ill and women property. Elon Musk started throwing Nazi salutes — yes, allegedly, but he would soon be posting nonstop about protecting the white race from extinction, so that’s the most fragile of fig leafs.
As of mere months ago, this was working out pretty well for them. The Trump administration took a mostly hands-off regulatory approach, particularly in the burgeoning field of AI. It decided to simply not enforce a divest-or-ban law against TikTok (something that was originally Trump’s own idea!), leading TikTok to thank Trump by namein its app. A Republican-led Congress was too...
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