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Facebook played fast and loose with privacy for over a decade. This might have worked in the US where corporate abuse and greed reigns supreme, but not so much in Europe. And Facebook elected to move its corporate nexus to Europe to tax dodge.

Were they so deluded to think Europe actually caring about privacy wouldn't one day come back to bite them?

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I think the key deluded part of Facebook was thinking just because Mark Zuckerberg isn't in the UK or other nations that want to talk to him that he can just ignore them. This move just goes to show how the laws of another country can affect you without you going to that country.

If there is one thing governments do not like it is being ignored and their power and reach is broad enough to make you comply in various ways.

>> Facebook played fast and loose with privacy for over a decade. This might have worked in the US where corporate abuse and greed reigns supreme, but not so much in Europe.

Unfortunately, we have plenty of that in Europe, too.

> Facebook played fast and loose with privacy for over a decade.

It is their only business model, what else they can do?

Combined with becoming a massively popular and influencial media company. Facebook can swing elections. So people who get elected are gonna get suspicious.

Europe is just as prone to corporate abuse and greed. See the new Copyright Directive pushed at the behest of European publishers.

Seriously. Does anybody think GDPR is more than just virtue signaling so they can fine companies?

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