I find it hard to believe that the inherent risks of this engineering choice (one globally transparently replicated database) weren't discussed. States coming

I find it hard to believe that the inherent risks of this engineering choice (one globally transparently replicated database) weren't discussed. States coming to a variety of conclusions and making a variety of decisions about how to treat a private US company holding an unimaginably large amount of social data and metadata... was an eminently knowable and completely obvious set of risks going in, so I have little sympathy for Facebook "failing" to plan a mitigation for those risks. It's hard to see it as anything but a deliberate choice. Unfortunately, given their past history I suspect the hope was that the company would be able to have its cake and eat it too, by playing on legislators' and citizens' lack of technological literacy and adhering to a "better to ask forgiveness than permission" policy. Throwing up engineering hurdles to compliance just benefits Facebook in this case, because they're banking on states' inability to simply ban Facebook. Facebook can force them to the table, with the deck stacked against them. "Won't your citizens be angry if you make Facebook inaccessible to them?" "Everyone uses it! That could be seen as censorship!" "Let's work together to find a solution that benefits everyone." It's the same story as with Uber and AirBnB.