FWIW, information regulation has been an aspect of how things are done online since at least Web 2.0. Google has an intricate fabric of policy-modifiers to tweak what people can and cannot see based on their geolocation, up to and including the details of national boundaries. Twitter, pre-Musk, had "banned in Germany" / "banned in France" flags on tweets and accounts that were even API-accessible (which was kind of neat; they served as a proxy signal for "Not saying this guy's a Nazi, just saying Twitter has found it legally expedient to suppress his ability to broadcast his thoughts to people in Germany").
... but the services that we'd expect to be mature enough to support those levels of nuance are starting to fall over on their asses, and that's concerning. Midjourney's a bit of an outlier (and, not to be a conspiracy theorist, but given Hotz's attitude on the topic I think it'd be worth it to follow the money on them). But Twitter, in particular, has seen a massive backslide. I always thought their ultimate goal was untenable (one flat, mass public forum is probably not a viable model for human interaction), but under Musk's dictat it has utterly imploded.
... but the services that we'd expect to be mature enough to support those levels of nuance are starting to fall over on their asses, and that's concerning. Midjourney's a bit of an outlier (and, not to be a conspiracy theorist, but given Hotz's attitude on the topic I think it'd be worth it to follow the money on them). But Twitter, in particular, has seen a massive backslide. I always thought their ultimate goal was untenable (one flat, mass public forum is probably not a viable model for human interaction), but under Musk's dictat it has utterly imploded.