Ah yes, it’s well known that as a single user, I totally have the power the meaningfully affect Facebook/Clearview/Google/etc when they do something to me, or w

Ah yes, it’s well known that as a single user, I totally have the power the meaningfully affect Facebook/Clearview/Google/etc when they do something to me, or with my data that I deem unacceptable. I can’t effectively sue them-they have an army of lawyers and can throw more cash without blinking than I can muster with years of work. They also have near bulletproof legal clauses. Simply deleting my account doesn’t do a lot against any of them (facebooks shadow accounts, googles pervasive ad/product network, clearview already harvesting all the data they need) and they have harvested so much, or have so many users, that the loss of a few over some principal means literally nothing to them. So yeah, I’m pretty happy for governments to regulate companies into the ground on my behalf: if they demonstrably can’t be trusted to do the right thing, then they can suffer the consequences.