Politician: What about these “mastodon” people who seem to think they’re above the law? If they won’t comply we’ll have to shut them down.
Tech advisor: Sorry, there’s no way. It’s run by thousands of individual people from all over the world, most of whom would not want to have anything to do with our legal system, and most of whom by virtue of their hobby running social media servers are extremely well-connected and would raise an enormous stink about it if we tried anything. Better to just pretend it doesn’t exist.
Politician: What about these “mastodon” people who seem to think they’re above the law? If they won’t comply we’ll have to shut them down.
Tech advisor: Sorry, there’s no way. It’s run by thousands of individual people from all over the world, most of whom would not want to have anything to do with our legal system, and most of whom by virtue of their hobby running social media servers are extremely well-connected and would raise an enormous stink about it if we tried anything. Better to just pretend it doesn’t exist.