Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
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Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
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Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#2Glad to see this. Now split up the whole company.
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#3Regardless of the merits of the case, it's interesting to see that a UK watchdog is able to exert such power over a US corporation. There's more background here: https://taxjustice.net/2022/01/18/the-uk-is-breaking-up-face... – they seem to be giving Brexit the credit for UK regulators able to make independent decisions from the EU's own competition regulators
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#4>"We will continue to evaluate opportunities – including through acquisition – to bring innovation and choice to more people in the UK and around the world."
How do the people writing this shite sleep at night?
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#5Glad to see this. Now split up the whole company.
Exactly. Also we need to do the same for Google, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft too.
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#6This is a huge win against Meta and Facebook, Bravo!
We need to also stop the Figma and Adobe sale as well, we cannot allow this anti-competitive sale to go through.
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#7Glad to see this. Now split up the whole company.
Split up what, a declining social network for boomers?
You all love to point the finger at Facebook in this 90s evil Microsoft fashion. Well TikTok is erecting behind your back and they're no stranger to data selling and Chinesr govt affiliation.
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#8Why care what the UK has to say about US matters?
Especially about whether a social media company can own a meme gif repo...
There's got to be much more pressing matters for them right?
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#9It's funny that digital billboard space is the main reason they cite.
To me the much bigger threat was that Giphy had integrations into many other chat and messaging apps which Facebook also competes with. Buying Giphy gave them new insight into competitor usage. Facebook could see which chat apps you were using and who you were talking to on them. All they had to do was fingerprint the gifs you sent to your friends
Re: Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling
#10> The regulator said Meta would be able to increase its “already significant market power” by cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals, or demand more user data from them in order to keep using Giphy.
I’m imagining a future in which Meta cuts off the winter supply of GIFs to the European Union, setting the populace into a restive period of incoherent communication.
Perhaps the EU, UK, and US should establish strategic (inter)national GIF reserves?