1/ This goes beyond a criticism of the EU Digital Services Act (on the grounds that the US First Amendment should apply worldwide). It argues the EU should not apply its *competition* law to US tech companies on the EU market either. A rejection of the very idea of the EU regulation of its market.
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🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for breaching antitrust rules and other violations, Meta chief exec Mark Zuckerberg said late Friday.
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EU should do what they have to do.
If you do not acknowlegde anything else but your own legitimacy, you cannot expect others to carry on as if nothing happened.
The EU should prepare for a decoupling.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-vs-the-european-union
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/01/07/face-a-elon-musk-les-europeens-desunis_6486352_3210.html
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/01/08/faced-with-elon-musk-and-his-meddling-europeans-are-disunited_6736812_4.html
Our Republican leaders & Supreme Court are wined, dined, bought & paid for.
It is imperative that the EU stand firm.
Our downward spiral is manifest on the world stage. Someone must uphold the rule of law. We aren't.
Coming back to Meta: from a business perspective that’s a business that can’t grow.
Soit Facebook se plie à la règlementation des pays où il fait du business, soit il dégage.
Et Facebook perdra tout son intérêt.
I fear for his spine which must be near breaking point in his eagerness to appease the new emperor...
Of course he's happy to leap on Musk's "FoS" bandwagon, now
More likely as 'dag' has pointed out in the FT it's just a business decision. One set of 'regulation' means less staff means more profit
There's a bit of that arrogance though, isn't there
I teach a data ecosystems course in the US. My students researched GDPR, downloaded personal data from the social platform of their choice, and evaluated the access process and meta/data outputs per GDPR regs. It was eye-opening for them.
Force Facebook to comply or divest, and when they fail then shutter and seize their EU assets.
... Of which i hope EU will avoid to even let come it up ^^!
We could loose Facebook & Twitter tomorrow and absolutely fuck all would happen. The only people who it would effect are the fuckers who write articles for click bait.
Everyone else would find another way.
Seize all bank accounts, property and holdings of Meta. Block/ban all Meta apps in the EU. Allowing EU companies to replace them.
And publicly tell US companies either toe the line or FOff.
The UK is probably buggered in this regards.
One obvious drawback of shutting down Twitter will be that Claire Fox will instantly be given 900 TV and radio spots per month to complain of being silenced - though that does not hugely differ from the present.