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BREAKING: A Questionable Deal for TikTok

Tech and politics are inseparable now

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Evan Armstrong
Sep 17, 2025
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One of the primary arguments of this newsletter is that tech is newly downstream of politics. For much of the 2000s-2010s, internet startups mostly operated with impunity, protected by Section 230 and the hope of a better tomorrow that would be ushered in with venture capital dollars. Now, two things have changed:

  1. The dollars are so, so, so much bigger. …

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