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noooooooo··on The Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
Governance is not synonymous with government. All governments are coercive and unethical, but governance is fine as long as it's consensual. Facebook practice governance as well but generally only over people who have given their consent. I'm not one of those people, so Facebook has never tried to exercise authority over me. That's obviously not the case with the government that claim the area I live in as their territory.
noooooooo··on The Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
I agree that Zuckerberg doesn't have the best incentives, but his incentives are still infinitely better than those of any government because Facebook's status is built on consent rather than coercion.

Decentralized and permissionless networks would be the best solution, but failing that, I'm happy to see the incumbents experimenting with different things that may improve the situation somewhat. Regulation and other forms of coercion is not a solution. Any "meaningful regulatory protections against disinformation" will no doubt become mandatory disinformation and protections against accurate information instead.

Taking into consideration their past actions and terrible incentives, government officials are the last people I would trust to determine what is true or what should be published.