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Facebook Says It Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down

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I just chimed in to say I hope it vanishes from the earth. Thank you.

Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments. You may not owe FB better, but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Right? The world would be a better place.

It's really hard to drum up any kind of pro-facebook feelings. Boo-boo, facebook. You've had a free ride with user data for years. They are no different than mobile advertisers complaining that they have a right to people's private data.

Yes and yes

Yes, I'd really like to see Zuckerberg trying to explain to his shareholders that he quit one of their most lucrative markets just to stick it to the EU authorities. I don't think it would go that well to him. This threat is so empty it makes them look like total fools.

Save a vice click by reading: “Facebook is not threatening to withdraw from Europe,” a Facebook spokesperson said, adding that the court filing simply lays out how “Facebook, and many other businesses, organisations and services, rely on data transfers between the EU and the US in order to operate their services.”

Got a source for that? You can a vice click but I'd still like to have some reputable source not just another dude on the internet.

I just quoted the article, so the source is the OP link. They just hide it at the bottom and then make the headline a lie to get your click.

Well now you made me click on the article to get to the link at the bottom...

LOL!

I know a fake threat when I see one. Facebook acts like everyone really cares if it’s cancerous presence vanished from half the globe.

>I know a fake threat

Is it a threat? It's like saing if you don't give me what i want, or i will overturn a bag of rice in china.

Yes! Please stop operating in Europe! Then, please stop operating in the US.

How can we make this happen on the US as well ?

Check that your department of justice is not corrupt. And democracy would help also

> And democracy would help also

Democracy is when an unelected 87 year old dies and now all the laws might change for some reason. -- https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/13073792967894343...

Still clutching at straws. "as well as being used to influence the results of votes across the region, including the U.K.’s decision to leave the EU."

Yeah right. This despite the influence of Obama, the BBC, the British establishment and their pro remain leaflet. As if Facebook made a difference.

In today's news. Facebook to be blamed for labour voters giving Boris Johnson an 80 majority in the last Election.

Good! Maybe a different, privacy-respecting social network can rise after FB’s departure.

Pro tip to FB: arguments that would make a good case in a US court are probably going to be felt very differently in Europe.

In this case what FB is saying to regulators is: EU regulations are working.

Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543932

Well, if you all guys here are EU citizens then interestingly you have same attitude against FB. Looks like EU should get clear green light from its society to stop people data harrasment.

Ha. This would be great! We don’t need facebook anyway.

Like the EU could not create their own FB and IG replacements.

Between the tiktok / wechat ban in the US and this, even if they don't materialize, I'm wondering if this is where we are heading. A deglobalization of social networks, each country or continent having its own...

You mean back to what it was before? Every country used to have its own social network. Russia has VK, China has WeChat and the rest of the world has Facebook. Hopefully that will change, but I don't think opensource is there yet.

Why not do it then? if you're scrambling hard for some tax scraps surely it would be more viable to 'just create the next fb' if you could.

The replacements could be "nothing". EU never needed these companies in the first place.

Best message of the day. Please do so.

Oh yeah!! Facebook please do that.

That’s a bluff if i ever saw one

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