That danger has been present for a while now. However, and as a thought exercise, say we did not go down the Citizens United path after Reagan repealed the Fai

That danger has been present for a while now. However, and as a thought exercise, say we did not go down the Citizens United path after Reagan repealed the Fairness Doctrine, and Clinton Telecommunications Act of 1996. Social media viewed through that lens, one where both the public interest is a thing we recognize must at least compete with profit, and the public trust is recognized and maintained as the high value part of our Democracy it is. I do not disagree with you about tech and the law being behind. And right now we remain in a particularly difficult time due to so many legislators not understanding tech well enough to perform their role as well as it needs to be performed. That said, our difficulty right now is greatly exacerbated by basic policy priority shifts that happened well in advance of tech. Owning that is particularly difficult too. Money and markets are a higher priority than the public interest is, and that is true for government as well as big media. The vacuum was there and significant, leaving tech, social media to rapidly expand into it. Had that time been one of more robust public trust, social media would have to compete much harder, and regulation may well have both been more effective as well as earlier, more robust in its positive impact.