I don't know about you, but Facebook is under US jurisdiction, and I'd rather they didn't launch a remote-sensing satellite without going through some regulatory hoops.

It's also dumb because it gives them incentive to just move to another country that doesn't care.

Welcome to most laws.

But they do, commercial satellite imagery is a big business (anyone who has used Google Earth knows this). It's just not the business SpaceX is in so it's not worth going through the hassle.

That wasnt the main idea of my statement.

I contend that my desire differs from parent comments claim