Twenty years ago, allegations that a large corporation was facilitating sexual predation of children would have been widely disseminated and the perpetrators punished, or at least noticed. But today, it goes largely unremarked, unnoticed. There have been dozens of scandals involving Facebook, everything from political censorship to a UN report accusing the firm of aiding genocide in Myanmar to Mark Zuckerberg offering to let Xi Jinping name his firstborn child. It’s evident that Meta is a threat to American children, insofar as Zuckerberg was forced at a congressional hearing to apologize to the parents of kids exploited on the platform. It is also a threat to American national security, insofar as it has now been confirmed that Meta explicitly offered to help transfer technology to China so that nation could outcompete American firms. But our political leadership class just cannot muster the energy or willpower to enforce any sort of moral or security order, and no one expects laws to be anything but guidelines for the powerful…