Enforced regulation has become impossible for at least the last 25 years or so. Anyone can just build a datacenter in some foreign country, and that software st

Enforced regulation has become impossible for at least the last 25 years or so. Anyone can just build a datacenter in some foreign country, and that software still affects the people in your country. Back when they were complaining that Russia was interfering with our elections (2016ish?) I wondered what it would take to completely cut Russia off from the Internet. Granted, the Soviets still pulled stunts with less technology, but it was still a manageable problem then. Now? Well, we couldn't cut them off if we wanted to, could we? Even if we bullied Europe into severing all the fiber backbones there and elsewhere, China and North Korea and a dozen other countries would still keep them connected. And we'd still face the problems we face now. Not that we would try that. Though it might be a sane and even a reasonably good policy, you'd have jackasses here and elsewhere (and not just Russian shills either) talking about how we can't possibly disconnect the friendly Russianerinos, they're good people even if some of their oligarchs aren't. So we'll get some performative regulation theater that changes nothing. And everyone will just wonder what went wrong, quietly.