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TBH. I'm with facebook on this. It makes me sad to agree with them. But yep a blackout seems the only logical way to deal with these laws. I've been part of a
by john_the_writer 4y ago
TBH. I'm with facebook on this. It makes me sad to agree with them. But yep a blackout seems the only logical way to deal with these laws.
I've been part of a few projects where we blackout EU locals. Just not worth the risk.
- RGamma 4y agoSince all the social/entertainment media never really added value to society (beyond what was established previously) this is not a loss. All they ever did was installing an advertising channel into our inborn desire for socializing. And the pathological interaction of social media and individual and group psychology have been discussed at length elsewhere.
- justinclift 4y agoFrankly, a lot of people hope it will happen. That would of course lead to the rise of an EU-centric facebook-equivalent within a few heartbeats, so it's pretty likely Facebook will back down.
- jacooper 4y agoMastodon/fedi-verse would probably have a field day if Facebook gets banned.
- jacooper 4y agoIts not the EU's problem if the US wants to spy on the entire world. Countries shouldn't put up with such BS. US is all about the free market until Tiktok showed up, which shares data with the government like how meta shares data with the NSA.
- shock 4y agoThe risk of what?
- Yaa101 4y agoAnd nothing is lost... Good riddance...