Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by jedberg on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:59AM (#25375706)

I can't be banned by my power company or my water company. Perhaps if Facebook wants their login to be treated as an essential service for multiple products, they should be regulated like a utility...

Or you know stop doing that.

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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by searchableguy on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:41PM (#25376209)

> they should be regulated like a utility

I expect that's what they want. Oauth logins could be regulated by government in a similar fashion to mobile spectrums and it won't be easy for competitors to pop up.

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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by collias on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:16PM (#25376581)

"I can't be banned by my power company or my water company"

Los Angeles is breaking new boundaries in this arena!

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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by Ruthalas on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:02PM (#25393479)

I'd love some more info, or a link if you would. This interests me.

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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by Barrin92 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:16PM (#25380124)

the world famous disruption, now literally

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Re:Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus u... by e12e on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:13PM (#25377226)

Well, we already have Google fiber and Google phone service. So there are some utilities you can get banned from because of happy birthday playing in the background of a YouTube video or something...

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