Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy
by vorpalhex on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:37PM
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> Come on, FB ran whatsapp for many years with zero revenue.
And Walmart undercut prices to the point of losing revenue to establish their position. Your lack of profitability does not somehow undo your monopolizing.
> When they enabled end-to-end encryption for billions of people?
Whatsapp still does not have global E2E [1].
> Or launched encrypted backups?
Yet the FBI still puts pen registers on the service [2] which makes backups moot.
> Whatsapp would not be what it is today without FB.
I think WhatsApp would be a much better product in someone elses hands. [3] [4]
And Walmart undercut prices to the point of losing revenue to establish their position. Your lack of profitability does not somehow undo your monopolizing.
> When they enabled end-to-end encryption for billions of people?
Whatsapp still does not have global E2E [1].
> Or launched encrypted backups?
Yet the FBI still puts pen registers on the service [2] which makes backups moot.
> Whatsapp would not be what it is today without FB.
I think WhatsApp would be a much better product in someone elses hands. [3] [4]
[1] - https://nypressnews.com/news/technology/meta-confirms-messen...
[2] - https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=2111...
[3] - https://m.dw.com/en/whatsapp-in-india-scourge-of-violence-in...
[4] - https://techhq.com/2021/11/after-record-gdpr-fine-whatsapp-f...