'Startup Nation' Groups Say They're Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated 'Freedom Cities'
Source: Wired
Several groups representing “startup nations”—tech hubs exempt from the taxes and regulations that apply to the countries where they are located—are drafting Congressional legislation to create “freedom cities” in the US that would be similarly free from certain federal laws, WIRED has learned.
According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trey Goff, the chief of staff of the startup nation known as Próspera, tells WIRED that he and other Próspera representatives working under an advocacy group called the Freedom Cities Coalition have been meeting with the Trump administration about the idea in recent weeks. He claims the administration has been very receptive. In 2023, Trump floated the idea of creating 10 freedom cities. Now, Goff says that Próspera’s vision is to create “not just 10, but as many as the market can handle.” They hope to have drafted legislation ready by the end of the year.
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But Gil Duran, a former political consultant and author of the Substack newsletter Nerd Reich, warns that building new cities from scratch could have negative consequences. “To be outside of the law and above the law, what does that mean for the rest of the country?” he asks. “It seems like you're going to start hollowing out other places in order to have these places where the rules are suspended and don't apply anymore to certain people.”
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Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/
Journalist Gil Duran posted about this article on Bluesky. He's been warning about this sort of thing.
https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3ljstg36srk2s
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Here comes the Network State!
Right on schedule: The NS cult is pushing to create new Corporate Dystopias in the USA.
(They call them "Freedom Cities," but let's not use that Orwellian term. Theirs is a vision to kill democracy and freedom.) via @wired.com
https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/
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Chump can't do this unless he destroys the entire country and Constitution first.
He would have to get past 350 million objections if he tried to do it.
