This argument is more thought provoking than people may think. What we see is a shift of power. Electronic communications started out as private enterprises, t

This argument is more thought provoking than people may think. What we see is a shift of power. Electronic communications started out as private enterprises, then mostly taken over by states because of the need centralization, and now almost completely taken over by private enterprises one layer above. Governments are still trying to make sense of what happened and find their role in this new world. Platforms are centralization at work, and it's not that far fetched to think that states could do a better job than Twitter or Facebook. Platforms have immense power. After all, we mostly agree that Facebook very literally facilitating genocide was not good for society. What we disagree on is how much they knew and how much was circumstantial. There is also this idea that jurisdictions matter for platforms. The Chinese connections with Tiktok owners are problematic since we know for a fact that they have the power to influence elections. The American ownership of Facebook is not similarly problematic, largely because the CIA and other institutions interests mostly align with ours. It would not surprise me if the Saudi money financing Twitter/X would turn out to be just as important as the financing of 9/11. In light of that, it should not be surprising that EU states wants to play the game too, even if it will have very little practical effect.