George Soros warns that the monopoly power of Google and Facebook is a danger to society and calls for them to be regulated.

Soros is right, but he misses part of the danger. He recognizes how China uses commercial databases for oppression, but doesn't recognize how the US is increasingly doing the same thing.

Having the US regulate these databases will not prevent that danger. What we need is to protect anonymity by preventing these databases from being collected at all.