There is an interesting proposal in Washington Monthly arguing that companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have to obtain digital licenses to operate in the United States. Allowing fake news and access to data to third parties could result in loss of the license. There are obvious concerns about this type of government intervention, but it is clear that Facebook, etc. have no financial reasons to clean up their act.

Evict Google or Facebook? Is this even technically possible? Internet gurus once promised that governments would be powerless to control digital information flowing across their borders. In 1993, computer scientist John Gilmore told Time magazine something that would become conventional wisdom among the first generation of digital natives: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

But times have changed. Many countries use technology to effectively control access to their online populations. China and Iran, for example, guard their digital frontiers using a number of interventions, such as IP address blocking, packet filtering, and domain name system redirection to block websites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Even countries that are not all that technologically advanced, such as Eritrea, Tajikistan, and Pakistan, have deployed such techniques. The UK also has blocked a number of websites.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2018/to-tame-the-tech-giants-we-need-to-secure-our-digital-borders/