Lionel Laurent: EU just doesn’t like Facebook’s business case

It’s not very surprising that Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg’s state-visit-style trip to Brussels got a pretty chilly reception from EU officials.

The Facebook co-founder is pleading for more regulation to solve what he, and his top lobbyist, Nick Clegg, consider to be a failure of public policy: If only governments could agree on how to regulate the internet without curbing free expression, the social network would be only too happy to comply.