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Meta, etc pushing this so that they don’t have to.
They want this because it entrenches them yet further. More of this kind of regulations makes it more difficult for newcomers to comply with everything.
Also I'm sure they'd love to be the one to hover up all of your data.
Man, if they don't have all my data by now, they're doing something wrong.