But how often are snarky but otherwise mild-mannered technocrats like yourself able to set the agenda for internet regulation, as opposed to actual demagogues like (in varying degrees) Macron, May, Erdogan, and Putin?

Your "regulate, regulate, regulate" chant about the evil influences of the American internet will in practice drive more censorship then privacy protection – even when, as with the Tories' new internet-regulation manifesto, the censorship is itself dressed up in "data protection" guise.