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My knee-jerk reaction is to rephrase this as "Facebook calls for regulatory moat." A lot of these ideas seem reasonable, but I suspect they'd build Facebook's advantage. See [Ben Thompson](https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/) for instance on how data portability isn't as beneficial as it might seem.
Large companies like Facebook love government regulation. They have enough money to pay attorneys to navigate the regulation framework and it keeps out future competitors.
This was my first thought, as well. Facebook can handle it. And they'll build a service for the little guys to use. Win, win!