Facebook Australia row: A dose of realism on tech regulation

 The enormous beef between Australia's government and Facebook has persuaded a lot of people that we are entering a new era of technology regulation.

In policy and news conferences from Palo Alto to Perth, mostly conducted on Zoom of course, heavy chat about regulation and chin-stroking reliably go together. But as is often the way with complex areas of policy, the word "regulation" has now been so used and abused as to have lost all precision in meaning. 

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