'other social networks will complain to us saying, ‘why not us?’' - Because it's realism. Someone said that macbook in that show must be paid product placement, I said it was just realistic, this character was a reasonably-well-off journalist. Even tv shows with poor people like Two Pints mention facebook in realistic terms.
As far as I am concerned utter nonsense is in the OP 's mind "Facebook and Twitter are not simply businesses", not in the French regulation.Do we want alternative social networks to even stand a chance against the current networks?
The French have a unique talent for putting theory before practice. It just kneecaps their domestic tech industry, like their insistence on keeping common English technical terms out of their vocabulary.
