3 ms·
How long before EU ask FAANG to "split or don't make business here anymore"? US won't ever do that because of all the lobbying, but EU might, no?
by dakial1 3y ago
How long before EU ask FAANG to "split or don't make business here anymore"?
US won't ever do that because of all the lobbying, but EU might, no?
- CubsFan1060 3y agoWhat would be available for phones and laptops in this scenario? The FairPhone, System 76 laptop... what are the other options? (Assuming you also mean Microsoft)
- dakial1 3y agoThat's a good point. Would EU be able to allow selling the phone but not the app store? Also, what is the line of monopoly or abuse of market dominance that would put these companies get caught in the EU's cross hairs?
- CubsFan1060 3y agoI'm sure they could pass laws to make these things possible. Assuming that these ideals are correct, I'd think that new device makers would pop up to satisfy these markets. I think something similar has happened with Huawei in China. The EU is going hard after FAANG, but if they all pulled out, does the EU have anything that can replace them? Edit: Actually, Fairphone is a great example. I think it's the sort of thing that satisfies all the ideals that the EU is trying to get to.
- pillusmany 3y agoNot a credible threat. There would be millions of people in the streets if Facebook/Whatsapp/Google were blocked due to EU regulations.
- dakial1 3y agoDon't really think so. Whatsapp was blocked many times in my country and the only thing it caused was for companies to realize they were relying too much on it and for people start using telegram.
- nbvkappowqpeop 3y agowhat are you talking about?
- overstay8930 3y agoYou think normal people give a shit about this whole thing? The moment Facebook doesn’t work in Europe people are voting out everyone who had anything to do with this.
- op00to 3y agoI am a heavy technology user, and I don’t care about alternative app stores. Your everyday user cares even less.
- paulddraper 3y agoBelieve it or not, a lot of people like FAANG products and use them daily. Imagine taking away your toddler's favorite toy. Forever.
- rchaud 3y agoYou are joking if you think that Facebook being down would cause protests.
- paulddraper 3y agoThere was a year of protests over a 0.02 EUR/liter fuel tax.
- bongodongobob 3y agoPeople lost their minds when Meta went down for like an hour the other day...
- paulddraper 3y agoIt was 4 hours according to their status page. [1] [1] https://metastatus.com/facebook-login/history https://metastatus.com/facebook-login/history
- turquoisevar 3y agoThat’s never gonna happen. Something like that would need to be done under antitrust regulation, such as art. 102 TFEU because the DMA isn’t antitrust regulation and doesn’t have mechanisms to establish such violations. While 102 TFEU (and in particular the CJEU case law surrounding it) has stacked the deck extremely in favor of the EC, in part due to it being designed and interpreted on the basis of European administrative law traditions, a ban or divestiture will only be imposed by the CJEU in the most extreme cases. A case even the EC, with the entire deck stacked in their favor, will never be able to make. Edit: Specifically for Apple, the others, depending on who we’re talking about, might be a different story.