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Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR) by dpark on Saturday June 02, 2018 @07:44AM (#17214105)
> please also consider the US's total and utter failure to get their antitrust regulations in gear: Facebook buying WhatsApp, Google buying DoubleClick and YouTube, etc. At a certain point, others will have to react to that kind of government-sanctioned monopolization to protect their markets.

The European Union also green lit those acquisitions. Hence the fines against Facebook for essentially lying to the European Commission about the merger.

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Re:Shutting Down Forum (GDPR) by tannhaeuser on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:52AM (#17214345)
It will be interesting to watch this unrolling, and I'd think criminal investigation is also on the table (vs Fb employees and EU officials).
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