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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by dom96 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:55AM (#33246409)
Meta also has offices and thousands of employees in the UK. Presumably the UK government could ban them from operating in the UK completely which would be a pretty big hit to those employees and all the teams that are based there.
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by hunterb123 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:56AM (#33246425)
The question is if the UK wants to really destroy thousands of jobs over a gif service acquisition, especially in this economy.

I would hope they wouldn't do that to their own people. You're not really hurting FB, you're hurting your own citizens.

Is that really the best use of regulation, political power, etc?

Can FB buy Tenor then? Is any gif service off limits?

Who can buy Giphy? Any other social media?

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by handelaar on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:24AM (#33248756)
Someone's clearly not familiar with the UK government's approach to jobs and the economy
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by bpye on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:09PM (#33253165)
Boris "Fuck Business" Johnson was only recently PM - https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-7857-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c...
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