And so a simple reform, as I mentioned in Utah, that says if you move away from TikTok to anywhere else, you can keep all your social connections, all your likes, your followers, your audience. That simple law changes the incentive so that people not in the room do not have to be convinced. The economic incentive flips so that they have to now fight to provide better quality of service to keep their customers. There are many, many issues like this that can be resolved quite simply by forced interoperability and portability. The Data Act, the Digital Markets Act in the EU, and many other laws are now looking at this, I think with a fresh angle, because the old way, which is just to moderate away troublesome content, is now falling out of favor since the communitarian turn, let’s call it that, in the US. And therefore, building off-ramps and on-ramps is now the go-to solution for many jurisdictions, including the US.

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