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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by oohaargh on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:57AM (#29392114)
Not an expert in the law or in this case, but blocking large companies from acquiring other companies which operate in the same space in order to cement monopolies is a pretty fundamental part of what a competition regulator is there for, it's hardly "bad law" or some arbitrary campaign against facebook
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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by baby on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:09AM (#29393666)
How is giphy “the same space”?
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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by vorpalhex on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:37AM (#29393999)
Giphy had an advertisement network that was based around gifs. Facebook shut down that advertisement network when they bought Giphy and rolled their own ads instead.
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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by oohaargh on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:25PM (#29398269)
Mate, the whole article is 11 sentences, including the bit that explains what a gif is, and 2 of those 11 sentences answer your question
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