Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi...
by sofixa on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:58AM
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> Personally the fact that the US regulators aren't wasting time monitoring gif repo purchases is a good thing in my book.
Good thing they're spending that time productively... Not blocking any egregious merger/acquisition from the past decade?
> Quite a hyperbole for a gif repo purchase. Can FB purchase Tenor then? Who could purchase Giphy, any other social media giant?
Facebook, or any other social media giant, shouldn't be allowed to expand in distributors to their competitors. Giphy is used by everyone, Facebook tracking Telegram users isn't something anyone needs. Anyone can purchase Giphy as long as it doesn't give them an unfair advantage, so nobody in the chat market.
> This is all virtue signaling because they know certain people will eat it up.
Good thing they're spending that time productively... Not blocking any egregious merger/acquisition from the past decade?
> Quite a hyperbole for a gif repo purchase. Can FB purchase Tenor then? Who could purchase Giphy, any other social media giant?
Facebook, or any other social media giant, shouldn't be allowed to expand in distributors to their competitors. Giphy is used by everyone, Facebook tracking Telegram users isn't something anyone needs. Anyone can purchase Giphy as long as it doesn't give them an unfair advantage, so nobody in the chat market.
> This is all virtue signaling because they know certain people will eat it up.
Who are those certain people?