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Re: Facebook CEO speaks to select members of European Parliament

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You may build a faster car engine than your competitor's so that your team can visit and close more prospects per day. You may not blow up the tires of your competitor's car so the other team cannot visit anyone.

Blowing up tires is physical damage and does not require any specific anti-trust laws. That's the problem with metaphors - sometimes they obscure the reality of things. Anti-trust covers much vaguer and more debatable 'crimes'. For instance Microsoft was rapped over bundling Internet Explorer although every OS comes with a web browser these days and nobody considers it controversial anymore. The main crime was giving…

> For instance Microsoft was rapped over bundling Internet Explorer

...And Google uses all of their products to tell you it's better to use Chrome, frequently destroy businesses by offering their own services in cards at the top of searches, which represent billions in free advertising, force Google store with their android OEMs, etc.

If Microsoft has been condemned for leveraging their dominant position in a market to get advantage in another market, Google should have been condemned years ago, for the same reason.

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The sovereign state called "The Republic of Ireland" is not leaving the EU as part of Brexit. The sovereign state called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is leaving the EU as part of Brexit.

The sovereign state named Eire, technically.

baby steps ...

Re: Facebook CEO speaks to select members of European Parliament

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>"I doubt many US politicians or citizens are concerned enough about Facebook to take any meaningful action." You might want to re-read my comment where I say there is no political will on account of lobbying and money. US Citizens are just as concerned as EU citizens about FB. Especially given FB's role in the last US Presidential elections. What is your justification for asserting that US citizens are not as concer…

Not OP but I'm also very skeptical something like GDPR would pass in the US. While people may be concerned about social media, polls show the majority of people are not in support of adding more regulation on the industry: https://springboardccia.com/2018/04/17/icymi-wsj-nbc-poll-fi... WSJ/NBC Poll respondents say social media platforms are… regulated too much: 14% have the right amount of regulation: 37% not regulat…

And if you actually read the WSJ article it states:

>"Some 37% of people in the new survey said social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are not regulated enough, while the same share said the sites have the right amount of government regulation, and 14% said there was too much regulation."

So its actually pretty evenly split between the "not regulated enough" and "have the right amount of regulation."

I think its fair to say that the 14% that said "there was too much regulation" of social media when in fact there is virtually none are simply doctrinaire anti-regulation Republicans who don't support regulation of any kind anywhere. So the fact that they were specifically being asked specifically about social media is basically irrelevant.

Re: Facebook CEO speaks to select members of European Parliament

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And if you had actually looked at those user numbers you would have seen that Europe has far more FB users than the US. Europe has 370 million FB users compared to 239 million in the US: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/facebook-q4-2017-earnings/

i meant that there was no change in those numbers recently

Can you provide a citation that demonstrates a significant deletion of FB user accounts form EU citizen compared to the US?

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i meant that there was no change in those numbers recently

Can you provide a citation that demonstrates a significant deletion of FB user accounts form EU citizen compared to the US?

thats what i m saying - there isnt any. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/number-active-faceboo...
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