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"Should X just be an information broker dealing out the details on users to any country that makes claims as nebulous as 'foreign influence'?"

Yes. A poster that specifically tries to influence a French elections with false statements is breaking French law wherever and whoever they are.



So should X give information to Iran on any Jewish account it suspects of engaging in "foreign influence"? How about to Russia on any Ukraine account, or vice versa? What about to everywhere else in the world and information on US accounts some country somewhere suspects of engaging in "foreign influence"?

Somehow rules seem to no longer apply when we start consider them being applied against our interests. This is a big part of the reason why the 'rules based order' is now mostly just sardonic mockery.




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