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.
I've been part of a few projects where we blackout EU locals. Just not worth the risk.
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.
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.
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.