Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe if it can't target ads

Re:Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe... by Copernicron on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:30PM (#30236041)

Didn't Meta just claim that they were all in favour of government regulations? Now they're whining and crying they have to follow the law. Good riddance to bad rubbish if they go through with it. Now if only we could get them to leave Canada.

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Re:Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe... by klyrs on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:03PM (#30236981)

They probably assumed that they would be the ones writing those regulations, and I think that's a fair assumption for the US market. Monopolies are big fans of regulatory capture, and politicians benefit greatly from them. The EU seems (to me, an outsider) to be more resistant to that sort of influence; at least from corps based in the US.

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Re:Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe... by pjmlp on Sunday February 06, 2022 @06:00PM (#30237951)

It helps that EU is still not a single country, so monopolies influence work differently across a collection of countries.

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Re:Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from Europe... by hulitu on Monday February 07, 2022 @06:00AM (#30243088)

No. They work the same. They just need more people.

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