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Keir Starmer and his government want to ignore the oligarch robber barons of Silicon Valley as much as they can. But these moves make that prospect more remote. The UK and EU are going to have to decide whether we want our online spaces (which are increasingly more or less synonymous with much of our democratic space) to be entirely determined not just by the highly ideological mores of Silicon Valley, but a Maga-Silicon Valley fused techno-political project, with a very particular dogmatic free speech ideology at its centre. And even if there is the political will, with the Trump administration firmly on side and an alliance between the centres of American political and economic/technological power, there is the more disturbing question as to whether there is enough residual remaining power and means in Europe, to do anything about it.