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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by voxic11 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:24PM (#21586748)
If they leave the EU though they don't need to follow European laws or pay European taxes, but that doesn't prevent European users from continuing to use the actual website.
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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by bad_user on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:44PM (#21587668)
No, that's not true.

Due to trade agreements US companies have to follow EU law, for EU citizens, even of those companies don't have a presence in the EU.

In other words Facebook would have to block EU users.

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