When the privacy commission in my country acted against facebook, it retaliated by issuing a country wide ban [1]. As far as I can tell, this had no noticable

When the privacy commission in my country acted against facebook, it retaliated by issuing a country wide ban [1]. As far as I can tell, this had no noticable effect on the political parties. I think you are overestimating the power of large tech companies to influence foreign EU democracies. There are other examples, including one involving google, where they tried to block access to certain services and expected the population to blame their government. Unless you can give me a counter example, I think it's more likely people will blame the tech company. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/9c9bf084-994f-11e5-95c7-d47aa298f769 https://www.ft.com/content/9c9bf084-994f-11e5-95c7-d47aa298f...