Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR

Re:Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one... by jacksmith21006 on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:13PM (#17159243)

Exactly. The EU makes it impossible to do business they will just not support the EU. Already people in the EU wonder why the US tech companies tend to not bring features or products and services to the EU.

Just going to get worse as there is plenty of other places to do business.

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Re:Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one... by hekfu on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:20PM (#17159535)

Sure, but the EU is not an insignificant market and to be honest, this could have a similar effect to anti trust laws. Have European companies build up competition against the US behemoths.

China is an unfree hell hole that I don't want to live in (social score) but you can't argue that from the position of developing a domestic industry their selective blocking/worsening of services allowed the ecosystem to grow intstead of sharecropping on Google's "platform"

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Re:Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one... by jacksmith21006 on Saturday May 26, 2018 @09:42AM (#17161964)

I do not think trying to slow down the competition will help the EU.

Guess we will see. Think instead less product and services will be offered.

If we look at the last 100+ years we can see Europe has fallen and continues to as the other continents rise.

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