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Wasn't there also the think that the German Monopoly commission allowed the merge (in the German marked) only under certain conditions/guarantees Facebook had t
by dathinab 6y ago
Wasn't there also the think that the German Monopoly commission allowed the merge (in the German marked) only under certain conditions/guarantees Facebook had to gave which the change to require Facebook for anything close to full usage of an Oculus VR headset violates?
It's also not the first time that Facebook told (legally binding) the monopoly one thing and then did another thing being like "Uh we give a shit about German and Eu law the penalties are to small".
Then there is GDPR.
So I wouldn't be surprised if it's partially because they have problems with putting up a "user contract" which isn't blown up directly into their face. Which allows them to (try to) wriggle out of constraints.
Honestly while some EU countries still back FB (because profit) in many countries FB has lost all/most patience and goodwill from the law keepers.
Also fun side note as far as I know FB also promised the founder of Oculus that they would not do exactly that (require a FB account for social features). Sure it's not legally binding but just another of a very large pill of anecdotes about how FB can not be trusted at all and given Marks role in it you can pretty much extend that to him to, which IMHO isn't surprising if you look into the (early) history of FB...
EDIT: Formulation/Spelling.
- 363638273 6y agoI don't think it's a matter of penalties being light really, if the EU hits too hard it'll just turn into a trade dispute. I think the much more likely attitude is "what are they going to do, build something better?" which isn't really an unfair mindset given germany, and more broadly Europe's, dismal history with competing at this kind of stuff.