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I don't think you can do either though. You have no control over what facebook or xitter does. Also you could ban donations but you can't ban independent expenditures or promises of high paying jobs after the stint is over.
We could do what other countries do, and have a stand down time after leaving parliament before allowing ex-ministers to go into the lobbying sector. Even the US does this....no idea why we don't.
We absolutely can require that FB/twitter et al, either vacate the country or comply with out laws.
They would vacate. We are too small of a country for them to care about.
I see that as a win
I don't and I bet most other people don't either.
Maybe we can invite competition. Let's get the Chinese and the Russians in here.