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Re:Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads by ahmeneeroe-v2 on Thursday November 14, 2024 @12:03PM (#42138258)
That's kind of my point. This isn't "consumer protection", it's a shakedown of a US company by the EU.

I think that the incoming US administration will seek to play politics more aggressively than the current admin.

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Re:Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads by tossandthrow on Thursday November 14, 2024 @12:07PM (#42138318)
Probably - or at least that is the rhetorics.

However, it is not clear that this is not in balance already. The discussion thread seems to believe that the EU is being harsher to the US than the other way around.

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Re:Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads by piva00 on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:18AM (#42144890)
Shakedown? It's the fucking law, either these companies follow it if they want to do business or they get punished.

I understand that the US justice system has a very porous concept of who has to follow the law or not but that's not how it should work.

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