> But addressing the situation where Google can render your phone, thermostat, etc, useless because you made a comment on YouTube is worthwhile. That's a noble

> But addressing the situation where Google can render your phone, thermostat, etc, useless because you made a comment on YouTube is worthwhile. That's a noble goal, but this is a clear culture war law that will crumble under any real scrutiny. Hitching your wagon to a law that's all about sticking your finger in someone's eye isn't going to help your cause. So instead, what could a good regulation look like? Maybe something that says these providers are forced to moderate the user-facing pieces of their platform separately from the core infrastructure pieces of their platform: so you can be banned from posting to Facebook for whatever reason Facebook wants, but your existing "Login with Facebook" connections won't break. Maybe toss in some data retention requirements as well – you can't post new photos, for example, and you have up to a year to pull the photos you've posted before Facebook is allowed to purge them.