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Indeed. I mean, on the one hand, all that tech is indeed different - but on the other hand, it's not the law of physics that it has to exist in a form that makes compliance difficult. A service not existing, or existing in a vastly different form, are options too - options the tech industry doesn't want to talk about.

And FWIW, it's third-generation mobile-first social media platforms we're talking about. It's hard to make a case they're not a huge net negative for society. In any other thread, people would happily agree they shouldn't exist in the current form in the first place.




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