>And it explains why, for example, no one cares about Comcast or the fact that a handful of payment processors basically run their personal fiefdoms about who or what they will allow on their platform, while we are asked to be over-worried by vague claims of 'Russian tampering'.

There's already a lot of regulation addressing traditional telecommunication, as the result of past lawsuits or FCC action, so I don't think this statement holds much water.

Say for example the numerous regulation on advertisement in children's programming[1] which had huge impact on the business of cable tv. No such thing exists for Youtube Kids, say. Compared to the wild west that is digital advertising, traditional telecoms actually are subject to a huge amount of constraints already.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulations_on_children%27s_te...