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> Where is the EU's evidence that FB/Inta etc. have launched products that have caused individual, social harm? I'm sorry, wat?

• logicchains 7y ago
  That's not an appropriate response to somebody asking for evidence. The hate for Facebook here almost seems cultish sometimes.
• thu2111 7y ago
  You're making his case for him. There's no evidence. Facebook is not harmful. The people who believe this overlap nearly 100% with people who believe conspiracy theories about "Russian meddling" (like the EU Commission). There's zero need to regulate Facebook. It's about the least harmful company in the world today. Its products have no safety implications. If it has an extended outage GDP probably goes up rather than down as people stop goofing off work. It's half way to being an entertainment company. The only reason this comes up at all is because the European political elites are immersed in a form of groupthink in which they cannot and will not engage with their citizens actual concerns (top concern by the EU's own polling: immigration). So they cast around trying to understand why anyone in the UK would vote to leave the EU and come up with some theory about how it's all Facebook's fault, despite that the EU always loses referendums when people are given a chance to object. So now anything Facebook does must be bad. The EU will continue to be dominated by US tech firms that don't care about what the Commission think for the forseeable future. The only obvious change on the horizon is that a new generation of tech firms, having seen what happened to companies that hired too many employees in Europe, will simply choose to serve the market entirely from abroad where they can ignore EU law at will.