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  1. Morphic Tide

    Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

    Yeah, most of the heavy-lifting on tax avoidance is in corporations and securities, which has a strong selection bias against the top "income earners" since capital gains and income under management are separate.
  2. Morphic Tide

    Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

    It's by far the simplest way to keep taxes from fucking with people at the bottom while using them a cudgel to the consolidation process. The critical detail of implementation is that the brackets are consecutive, making it diminishing returns rather than making it actively detrimental to get...
  3. Morphic Tide

    Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

    The active, specific, publicly declared point of the organization as a whole is this behavior. The specific case in question had them try to talk Musk into doing such things on their behalf expressly without mentioning it to the public. They virtually never do this with any meaningful evidence...
  4. Morphic Tide

    Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

    The point being made is that the "free speech" is very directly the methodology of suppressing political opponents with spurious accusations of antisemitism and racism, by using these accusations to dissuade business partners such as advertisers and retailers. "The only coercion" is words, but...
  5. Morphic Tide

    Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

    It's not in the User Agreement contract so it's up to the arbitrary termination clause By that logic YouTube probably owns the Hazbin Hotel pilot and all Helluva Boss episodes, which the companies Vivziepop works with will naturally look at rather poorly.
  6. Morphic Tide

    Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

    They'd need to put it to public record that they own everything posted in all regards not previously filed as intellectual property of another entity, which immediately annihilates the Section 230 protections because those rest on the speech not being "theirs", which is obviously impossible if...
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