Bad people can have incentives which incidentally align with the the broader public interest.

• Meta, Google, Netlfix etc. all supported net neutrality since they benefit from it.

• Meta, Google and Microsoft all opposed laws permitting NSA bulk data collection.

• Google, Elon Musk, Apple, and our overlord Larry Ellison all opposed encryption backdoors.

In this case, Meta benefits financially from having a uniform legal landscape. That is, they don’t want to have to pay lawyers go fight cases in Florida because a 12 year old saw a video of a drag performance, nor pay a bunch of people to do content moderation. They don’t want the headache of being content police, they just want to make money selling ads.

Kid yourself not, Meta still wants your real-world identity. But they already get that by scanning your photo album in the background, capturing location data, facial-scanning your photos, etc. But it benefits them to not have to argue under 50 different states’ laws they didn’t knowingly or negligentlly facilitate endangering children.

People should read Marx, but this argument is invalid. I think Nazism is evil and I don’t think I need to read Mein Kampf to determine that.