But we’re seeing, for example, in the state of Utah in the U.S., they passed the Digital Choices Act. So people can move, for example, from Facebook to Bluesky or to Mastodon and keep their community’s wisdom, keep their interactions, their followers, their replies, their reactions. And so this offers an alternative. Then there’s a motivation for Big Tech to innovate, to care more about how people use their services. So to your question, I believe the regulators should not just say, “Oh, we want a national champion, we want our own Facebook,” but instead regulate the existing Big Tech like utilities, making sure people can move freely across them just as we can port our numbers across telecoms.

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