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Social media and data storage/distribution has clearly become an integral part of modern society. Time for governments to treat them as the utilities they are.
Yeah, I definitely agree. Online services are still sort of treated as just being “fluff” in some sense, instead of huge parts of our daily lives that have similar implications that “meatspace” utilities do