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If regulations can legitimately be advocated for, they can be advocated against as well.

Facebook wouldn’t have any vested interest in the far left, the far right, the far up or the far down in the EU if the EU wasn’t giving them reasons to take an interest. If the parties in power were really worried that Facebook was going to be the difference-maker, they could undercut the opposition and remove the issue entirely by rolling back their needless regulations and keeping their own desire to overstep their authority and dictate terms to foreign enterprises in check.





> If regulations can legitimately be advocated for, they can be advocated against as well.

That's not logically necessary.




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