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Meta also has offices and thousands of employees in the UK. Presumably the UK government could ban them from operating in the UK completely which would be a pre

by dom96 4y ago

Meta also has offices and thousands of employees in the UK. Presumably the UK government could ban them from operating in the UK completely which would be a pretty big hit to those employees and all the teams that are based there.

hunterb123 4y ago
The question is if the UK wants to really destroy thousands of jobs over a gif service acquisition, especially in this economy. I would hope they wouldn't do that to their own people. You're not really hurting FB, you're hurting your own citizens. Is that really the best use of regulation, political power, etc? Can FB buy Tenor then? Is any gif service off limits? Who can buy Giphy? Any other social media?
- handelaar 4y ago
  Someone's clearly not familiar with the UK government's approach to jobs and the economy
  - bpye 4y ago
    Boris "Fuck Business" Johnson was only recently PM - https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-7857-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c475 https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-7857-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c...