Because people are blowing this way out of proportion. Users uploading illegal content is always part of hosting a platform and lawmakers realized this decades ago. Platform hosters legally cannot be held liable for the content of their users unless they have actual knowledge of specific instances of illegal content. This is both in the US (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) and the EU (chapter II of the Digital Services Act, previously the eCommerce directive)
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I don't want to get into the mess of the government defining what is or isn't against the law
What does that even mean
Tbf Max would have pushed no matter what the team told him.
Do you think it makes sense to run all kinds of tests and scans whenever someone comes in with a headache? It's often impossible to be certain about the underlying illness so doctors have to make educates guesses. If it's probably a mundane problem, they're not going to continue digging just in case the patient might have a never-seen-before worm in their brain.
Someone didn't read the article
Please eat the verification cheese
Have you ever seen the statistics? The DPAs are massively underfunded and the Irish DPC in particular is notorious for ignoring complaints, to the point where the EU is considering launching infringement procedures against Ireland for not properly enforcing the GDPR. If you think they will take action on a complaint like this, you will get disappointed.
On the other hand, petitioning the courts to intervene is probably easier than you think. In some member states you don't even need a lawyer, so all it takes is a bit of time and some court fees. I'm not saying it's the preferred option, but realistically it is the shortest path to a result.
Communication network providers in the EU generally aren't liable for illegal activity of their users.
The DPC is almost certainly going to ignore complaints like this. You can choose between suing meta or suing the DPC.
So you want to have discussions, but without arguments?
DPAs don't have the resources to take action on every single complaints. You can sue the controller or processor directly under article 79 if you want to be sure that an issue gets dealt with quickly.
In case you don't know, Cloudflare already controls a massive amount of websites, have access to their unencrypted traffic and are making the web inaccessible for people who use tor or noscript. They are a threat to the open web.