Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm...
by briandear on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:33PM
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I may be an anomaly, but I live in Mountain View and never once looked up restaurant hours on Facebook. Yelp (which I despise,) Google, TripAdvisor and other sites generally have business hours. You could even call the restaurant to get hours! Old fashioned, I know. Maybe I am in a bubble in Silicon Valley but I never have to interact with Facebook to get things done. My kids school, frustratingly, has a What’s App group for parents, but I don’t even need to interact with that to know what’s going on.
All the people lamenting Facebook: simply stop using it.
Re:The EU's Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Comm...
by ekianjo on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:24AM
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> Can you?
Yes, you can. Nobody is holding a gun on your head to use Facebook and Google. You don't have to look up restaurants using these services, and if your restaurant is not listed there, you can go in person, or call you know? Or avoid such restaurants altogether. There is absolutely no obligation except habits that have formed over time. And habits can be broken.
A few billion in fines for anti competitive behavior would disagree. Google does not want you to have a choice.
> You can still live outside of the Google/Facebook world happily.
Can you? Most restaurants in my area publish their hours and menus using Facebook, others integrate themselves with Google. And how could I fault them? It certainly is cheaper than what they did in the past, paying for a minimal website to do the same. Unless some government comes down on them hard they will continue to infect every aspect of modern live.