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Well, it won't happen. It's just a way too big market to give up. Even if they are forced to invest a significant amount of their engineering power to get it do
by Matthias247 5y ago
Well, it won't happen. It's just a way too big market to give up. Even if they are forced to invest a significant amount of their engineering power to get it done, they probably will have to. And I think they should be required to do it, if the same requirements apply to every other company too.
- tdsamardzhiev 5y ago> Well, it won't happen. One can dream, no?
- jollybean 5y agoIt's a form of regulatory capture that will enable to FB to do just fine, and have tons of companies pull out of Europe for almost zero benefit to Europeans. It's a 'nice thought' to have all data and data processing apply locally in Europe, but it also has only very, very marginal benefits. Just think for a moment: where are the Europeans who are directly harmed because FB has their data in the US under different jurisdiction, whereupon, if the data were all in Luxembourg, their personal outcome would be better? I'm not even sure that exists. Were Sven and Francois harmed, distraught and complained to the EU that this data ought to be in Luxembourg in which case they would not have been harmed? The regulation requires a fair bit of cost and complexity for very little upside and will make it more difficult for companies to operate. Of the things we don't like about Facebook that the data is in the USA is not the biggest burden. It's one thing, but not a the most obvious thing.
- reaperducer 5y agoIt's just a way too big market to give up. Google gave up on China. Maybe there's reason to hope.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoDid they though? They don't offer some services there but analytics, search (google.cn) and ads are still available AFAIK. Those are the big money makers for them.