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Wow, overblown headline. Facebook is not "being banned", Facebook is simply being required to protect EU citizen's information the same way every other company
by olliej 4y ago
Wow, overblown headline.
Facebook is not "being banned", Facebook is simply being required to protect EU citizen's information the same way every other company is.
Part of that means not subjecting them to warrantless surveillance, since the US government has repeatedly and aggressively said that the data any company has from anyone not living in the US has no such protection. If this hurts Facebook's business they should go and talk to the US government about why it has decided to cause such harm.
Obviously this makes the US government (and gruber and similar tech pundits) complaining about TikTok complete bullshit. TikTok is literally doing exactly what Facebook is doing, why should that data be any less accessible to the PRC gov than Facebook's data is to the US?
- cm2012 4y agoFor your last point, because the US and EU are allies while China is not. Plus China's human rights abuses are a whole other league from western countries.
- olliej 4y agoYes, the EU and the US are allies, which makes the wanton abuse of EU citizen's right to privacy less reasonable, not more. [edit: wanton not wonton, though wontons are good]