It’s not that absurd. In the automotive industry, California emissions and efficiency standards become the defacto standards in the US mainly because it wouldn

It’s not that absurd. In the automotive industry, California emissions and efficiency standards become the defacto standards in the US mainly because it wouldn’t make economic sense to maintain a California model and a more polluting model. Also, better fuel efficiency is generally seen as a good thing by consumers. EU has a population of 510m. FB is blemished by privacy concerns. If Facebook makes a GDPR compliant version – it wouldn’t be unreasonable of them to roll that same version out to the rest of the world.