The "internet" is not a place. It's a network of physical infrastructure located in nation-states. It is not somehow a realm of its own separate from the physic

The "internet" is not a place. It's a network of physical infrastructure located in nation-states. It is not somehow a realm of its own separate from the physical world. The laws of nation-states apply to Facebook, its staff, its infrastructure, and its offices as much as they apply to anyone else—and the same goes for other random internet companies, including HN.com. It's reasonable to argue against particular forms of regulation, but not that internet companies have some special nature that exempts them from regulatory oversight altogether.