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Possible he chose French courts over Russian tea.

I believe this has some correlation with timing of the UN cybercrime treaty.

https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/un-overwhelmingly-approves-...

I could be wrong but i thought the arrest warrants were made while midflight to france

Of course its politically motivated otherwise Zuckerberg would have been arrested already 100 times.

Appearing to try to comply, responding promptly to questions, etc means a lot to governments. While meta may not moderate well, they do obviously try, and they cooperate with requests (they reply, meet, etc)

Exactly and spending all that money on all that. As long as the extortion racket is paid you can operate under theatrics. Regulatory moat anyone?

Ah come on. Plenty examples of misbehavior of Meta. Especially outside of the US.

Governments get upset when you break the law

They get really upset when you also stonewall them