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“likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe”. Again the blackmailing. Now an
by jruohonen 3y ago
“likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe”.
Again the blackmailing. Now and then they are leaving Europe or Australia or whichever country. Good riddance if they really bail out this time.
"I don’t want to overstate things. Warnings of a splinternet have been floating around the web for as long as I’ve been reporting on technology, with the outcome often cited as a lazy argument against any attempt to impose regulatory burdens on the net at large. But it feels closer to reality than it ever has before. Is that a good thing?"
This whole "splinternet debate" in the Western world has been misguided; it has always been about gigantic platforms and not the Internet per se. For some reason, some people have started to equate the two.
- rektide 3y agoI have scant empathy for either side. Facebook has had - primarily historically - a bad track record. EU is being a terror & makes absurd demands. Facebook can't be a place to let people connect if each region needs it's own Facebook, and that's what the EU is very close to demanding right now. It's a pity it's such a sad pissing match of asymmetric powers, of giant state power Vs giant corporate power, but this kind of is the point of the very hackerly Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. Governments are fools, incapable of regulation, and we see the bias they're using today to hunt big corps, but they're making their regions increasingly impossible to serve & help. They are creating conditions where those states will be disconnected from the Internet where the only way they can enforce their rules is to disconnect their citizens from (parts of) the internet.