Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zuckerberg

Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by gman83 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:28PM (#23394314)

I'm pretty sure that Facebook won't do anything until they finish integrating the Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp backends so that any future antitrust action won't be able to split up the company. They just need to postpone.

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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by paxys on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:50PM (#23394675)

Yes, members of Congress are totally going over Facebook backend architecture when deciding whether to enforce antitrust action.

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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by OldManAndTheCpp on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:30PM (#23394355)

Do unified backends mean that the government can't enforce antitrust action? That would be quite the loophole.

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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by awinder on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:39PM (#23394495)

No lmao, the US has enforced monopoly breakups of companies with much larger physical barriers, and honestly much more real-world dependency/impact

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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by lecanucker on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:39PM (#23394517)

"See, it's really just one <thing>! and with our unified TOS, it's just one service with 3 different ways to consume it!"

...Facebook, probably.

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Re:Civil rights leaders blast Facebook after meeting with Zu... by barbecue_sauce on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:41PM (#23394546)

Yeah, not sure why that would be pertinent.

"You can't split us up! Our backends are unified!" "Un-unify your backend." "...oh."

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