[marcelluspye]

>What is surprising is the odd bedfellows of Soros on the left and others on the right clamoring for FB regulation. I probably agree they need some kind of regulation --but one more generalized to all user-facing internet companies (colloquially "user is the product" companies).

Your last point is worded as if Soros is the sole and direct cause of the clamor. I think the more likely cause is the large number of (elderly -- voting!) people for whom facebook is the internet. It serves politicians to play to this confusion, as it gives them a clear company/CEO to point the finger at to appear 'tough on the bad things happening on the internet.' Bill Gates used to be the 'computer person' to old people (the president said in 2015, "We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way." in regards to the internet), and now it's Zuckerberg.