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“A16Z Offers Financial Aid to Politicians in Exchange for Tech Deregulation”

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The fact is that they are rich ideologues announcing their intent to pay any politician who will advance their agenda, whatever that politician’s other views. That tech is more important than people is fundamental to their approach. For instance, supporting politicians who oppose basic civil rights just because they have a more hands-off tech regulation proposal. In the first place, the idea that this one issue is non-partisan is risible. They can’t expect us to believe that their understanding of lobbying and politics is this naive.