It's the inevitable culmination of their plan.

Pretend to be anti-censorship. Get voted in. Fast track all of the censorship and surveillance through congress.

When I saw certain billionaires talking up anti-censorship and anti-surveillance a few years ago, I knew we would be screwed. (I knew the same billionaires had large positions in censorship and surveillance tech.) No one ever talks against their own book unless they're planning on screwing you.