The Regulation Theater
I’m scrolling through the Meta executive memo again, the one about End-to-End Encryption on Instagram. Launching soon, they promise. Bold letters. Strategic leak to the right journalists. The PR machinery hums—an announcement about privacy, about your messages, about the walls they’re finally building between you and them.
Then it stops. The rollback. Quiet. In the margins of a quarterly call, a pivot. Something about law enforcement access, about child safety, about—