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How come FTC keeps coming back at this one company? Whereas TikTok and others having business as normal

This is the equivalent of someone complaining to the policeman that pulled them over for speeding that another car just sped past them and he's not giving them a ticket too.

Haha. targeting one specific car plate at each turn while never saying a word to every other car speeding up (to other companies doing the same stuff as well as other big monopolies).

Why is FTC making sure the biggest social media company plays by the rules that they continue to break? I find it hard to believe that this question is in good faith.

TikTok is currently being considered for a total ban in the US isn’t it? And it’s banned on US government devices? Not the greatest example to use for your point.

It is because Facebook has lots of money and users just like TikTok today, but Facebook was the biggest at the time when they got fined in the billions.

If the FTC is getting upset at Facebook over privacy issues, then they should equally apply this to all social networks, especially TikTok which is just as equally as bad if not worse today and should also be fined in the multi-billions of dollars if the are to continue to operate in the US with a worse track record of privacy violations. [0] [1] [2]

A massive multi-billion dollar fine for TikTok is much better than a total ban.

[0] https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/dutch-dpa-tik...

[1] https://www.scmagazine.com/news/privacy/uk-tiktok-16m-fine-c...

[2] https://fortune.com/2022/12/22/tiktok-data-privacy-blunder-c...

Every comment from this account is defending or advocating for Meta or one of its products. Don't drink the Kool-aid, folks!

Haha. I think all ad company work more of less in same manner. You can use whatever slang you want.

> How come FTC keeps coming back at this one company?

It doesn’t, exclusively.

Lots of social media companies have had run ins with the FTC.

Perhaps because FB is actually breaking the law.

Comments like these make me wonder if they’re Meta employees that held onto their RSUs too long.

Well, FB does have ~2BB euros set aside to pay for EU fines in 2023. So not just the FTC!

You know how it goes. They're going to take the budget away if it doesn't get spent.

Hopefully, this will prevent all of the comments that say EU only fine them because they don't like US companies.

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