Bay Area political events: Taxing the rich, 2020 congressional race update

Big tech and political speech: A debate on, “Resolved: New regulations are not necessary to address Big Tech’s political bias.” In the affirmative, Mike Godwin of R Street Institute and Berin Szóka, president of TechFreedom. In the negative, Republican Party official Harmeet Dhillon and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe. Sponsored by the Lincoln Network. Free. 7 p.m., Galvanize-San Francisco, 44 Tehama St., fifth floor, San Francisco. More information is here.

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