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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by rswail on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:00AM (#33247253)
You do realize that the US applies that the same sort of regulatory business processes for overseas companies that wish to operate in the US.

In fact, the US "reach" into overseas trading including banking and other business processes is much more intrusive than any EU or non-US business regulation of US companies.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by mostertoaster on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:10AM (#33247407)
Exactly. People seem to be forgetting this most of all in this thread.

Though I can’t recall any specific times where the US blocked the acquisition/merger between two European countries.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by mostertoaster on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:11AM (#33247419)
Whoops. I mean European companies. (Reading it now the us most definitely meddles with whole countries)
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by thatguy0900 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:40AM (#33261971)
World War 2 comes to mind
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