So, in the middle of this almost an entire day of conversation, there’s a plenary session. So, the idea is that people first watch some scientists talking about this problem, policy experts, and then they start deliberating very concrete solutions. One room came up with this idea that we currently, at the time, fine Facebook if they don’t comply and they’re like, “They’ll just pay the fine. Instead you should make them liable.” So, if somebody gets scammed out of $7 million by an unsigned advertisement, Facebook should be liable for the entire $7 million. And another room was like, “Oh, but Bytedance TikTok did not have a office in Taiwan. If we make them liable, they can just ignore us. What to do?” And they said, “Oh, we can slow down connection to their servers gradually until all their business goes to Google because TikTok video will become too slow to load.”

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