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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson
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The Government's Threat to Facebook's Product Without a Smoking Gun
Facebook and their internal leadership was also connecting the dots on their own without any explicit threat or product from the government. And I trust is the number one thing companies fear the most. There's also the question of section 230, which undergirds the very like Facebook is not possible without section 230. The current case law as I understand it is that there needs to be an explicit sort of tying.
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