EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

Re:EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy by prmoustache on Thursday April 18, 2024 @10:21AM (#40076585)

> It’s ironic that you’re talking about entitlement when the EU is more or less telling meta to provide its services for free.

No. Facebook can paywall their services.

What they condition the use of their services while respecting user's privacy to payments. It is like EU fighting against a criminal organization that offer "protection services" if you don't want them to burn your shop.

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Re:EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy by chaostheory on Thursday April 18, 2024 @06:33PM (#40081450)

That analogy makes no sense as a retort to why EU publishers don’t have to abide by the same rules. EU publishers also have n free articles per month. It’s still just protectionism at the end of the day.

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Re:EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy by prmoustache on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:52AM (#40084610)

I think the key is the EU's Data Protection Board can't probably fight all abuse at the same time and target first the biggest (in term of audience) first.

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Re:EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy by chaostheory on Friday April 19, 2024 @09:26PM (#40093759)

If they don’t bother enforcing the privacy rules on domestic companies, it’s just thinly veiled protectionism of dinosaur media companies.

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