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Excellent, that should teach those idiot Norwegians a thing or two about where they stand on the totem pole of power. Facebook > Every other country on the pla

Excellent, that should teach those idiot Norwegians a thing or two about where they stand on the totem pole of power. Facebook > Every other country on the planet Facebook is a country because it is acts as an independent sovereign state which is not answerable to anyone at this point. Apparently, it already makes up its own taxation laws[1].I expect them to release their own flag, maybe a national anthem? [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/07/29/facebook-ignores-another-irs-summons-reveals-it-could-owe-billions-in-taxes/#71ea3ae30bfc http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/07/29/face...

vidarh 10y ago
As an "idiot Norwegian", I think you'll find Facebook better thread carefully here. They've now pissed off and censored multiple high level politicians, two of the largest national newspapers, and several high profile writers, pouring gasoline on a long simmering debate over whether they are a threat to democracy... If they want e.g. to have Norwegian brands willing to be associated with and advertise on their platform, they'll need to step carefully, because they're getting dangerously close to it being a PR coup of higher value for companies to publicly announce they won't spend money on advertising on Facebook, than the return of actually advertising on Facebook. Of course, they can live without the Norwegian market. What they can't live with would be if this debate also start taking off elsewhere. And this has already led to articles in a number of major international newspapers, and it will get a lot more attention before it subsides.
- thr0waway1239 10y ago
  Obviously it was sarcasm. If you read my comment history, you would notice that I keep railing against FB every chance I get.
  - vidarh 10y ago
    I didn't take any offence, but I'm pleased to hear I didn't catch the sarcasm.
    - thr0waway1239 10y ago
      I could have omitted that first sentence. What I meant was that I didn't expect a serious response to a comment of mine which was intended to be only sarcastic.

vidarh 10y ago

As an "idiot Norwegian", I think you'll find Facebook better thread carefully here. They've now pissed off and censored multiple high level politicians, two of the largest national newspapers, and several high profile writers, pouring gasoline on a long simmering debate over whether they are a threat to democracy... If they want e.g. to have Norwegian brands willing to be associated with and advertise on their platform, they'll need to step carefully, because they're getting dangerously close to it being a PR coup of higher value for companies to publicly announce they won't spend money on advertising on Facebook, than the return of actually advertising on Facebook. Of course, they can live without the Norwegian market. What they can't live with would be if this debate also start taking off elsewhere. And this has already led to articles in a number of major international newspapers, and it will get a lot more attention before it subsides.

thr0waway1239 10y ago
Obviously it was sarcasm. If you read my comment history, you would notice that I keep railing against FB every chance I get.
- vidarh 10y ago
  I didn't take any offence, but I'm pleased to hear I didn't catch the sarcasm.
  - thr0waway1239 10y ago
    I could have omitted that first sentence. What I meant was that I didn't expect a serious response to a comment of mine which was intended to be only sarcastic.