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Is Mark Zuckerberg right to change content moderation policies and end DEI? I mean, I’m fairly sympathetic to what he says he wants to do, but really that’s the wrong question. And it’s a question that progressives need to stop caring about. The better question is why a single individual has this much power over our speech commons. And a further question is what Zuckerberg wants from our government.
In 2020, Mark Zuckerberg described the ‘existential’ threat to his company, which was the antitrust suit filed against him by the Trump administration. That case goes to trial in 2025, if Trump chooses to continue with it. If. There are many other policy goals that Zuckerberg has, and none of them have to do with controls over speech.
So forgive me for being cynical, but Mark Zuckerberg’s real goals are (1) an end to the Federal Trade Commission antitrust suit against the firm (2) to eliminate the consent decree that bans the targeting of children and (3) the legalization of mass copyright violations for AI training models (4) eliminating regulatory scrutiny of Facebook’s payments business by the CFPB and (5) warding off the threat that Congress will regulate the social networking firm over kids privacy. (6) U.S. government aid in preventing foreign governments from regulating the company’s platforms.
https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1877819848706650115
Is Mark Zuckerberg right to change content moderation policies and end DEI? I mean, I’m fairly sympathetic to what he says he wants to do, but really that’s the wrong question. And it’s a question that progressives need to stop caring about. The better question is why a single individual has this much power over our speech commons. And a further question is what Zuckerberg wants from our government.
In 2020, Mark Zuckerberg described the ‘existential’ threat to his company, which was the antitrust suit filed against him by the Trump administration. That case goes to trial in 2025, if Trump chooses to continue with it. If. There are many other policy goals that Zuckerberg has, and none of them have to do with controls over speech.
So forgive me for being cynical, but Mark Zuckerberg’s real goals are (1) an end to the Federal Trade Commission antitrust suit against the firm (2) to eliminate the consent decree that bans the targeting of children and (3) the legalization of mass copyright violations for AI training models (4) eliminating regulatory scrutiny of Facebook’s payments business by the CFPB and (5) warding off the threat that Congress will regulate the social networking firm over kids privacy. (6) U.S. government aid in preventing foreign governments from regulating the company’s platforms.
https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1877819848706650115