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by pessimizer 1721 days ago
Nothing in the neolib Anglosphere and its colonies. We grant power by skill at the accumulation of money (which we call a meritocracy - a religion with credit as merit and cash as grace), so Facebook is only answerable to its corporate peers. Those are the people it can't piss off.

In other countries, there are power centers awarded by other than cash accumulation. Xi, Putin, and MBS aren't particularly worried about Facebook.

Europe is the only place making an attempt, but that's because they have a post-WWII extra-capitalist social consensus sponsored (and enforced) by US military spending. Any real flexing by the US, and Europe either backs down or turns to China.

This article is typical Guardian legislative fanfiction, where we pretend that rules are put into place based on how well they might work to achieve liberal philosophical aims, rather than by power. If any politician or movement amassed the power to do any of these things, the Guardian would devote all of its energy to attacking them.