People haven’t had a choice, so this is not a revealed preference. From what indications I am seeing, people were hesitant to empower government, but are increasingly amenable to the idea.

For countries other than America, it’s not just private enterprise, it’s Foreign Private enterprise.

For both, self serving and genuine reasons, Tech is highly resistant to calls for openness, data sharing, and cooperation with civil society.

A perennial questions from civil society is “how do we engage with tech?”, “what did you do after we sent you data and evidence?”

Ignorance is the only product of this, and that is driving suspicion, fear and anxiety in voters.

Without this swell of resentment, there would be no support for social media bans.