I think the point is that this is being sold by the government as them against big evil (billionaire) tech companies. When in fact it's genesis is the lobbying

I think the point is that this is being sold by the government as them against big evil (billionaire) tech companies. When in fact it's genesis is the lobbying of local billionaires. So let's discard the billionaire card, and discard the government's equally clique angle: we are against Facebook so we are right and don't look any closer.