https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal...
(Page 11 for the CDC)
That is how authoritarianism works. It's been very effective in China where companies and institutions are cowed into compliance. For example, censoring by social media companies. Companies self-sensor their users' content so the government doesn't have to. Why? Because if they don't, they know they will get in trouble in some way, and it may on the surface be completely unrelated (like these veiled threats about tax status).
msie•9mo ago