Australia’s standoff against Google and Facebook worked—sort of

Australia forced tech giants to pay for content; other countries now expect the same.

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Isn’t Meta also threatening that it could shut down Facebook and Instagram operations in Europe if it was no longer allowed to store data on European users in the US?

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Facebook/Meta says a lot of things, they’ll still be rich to crazy degrees even if all that went through.

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If we stop using these products the companies will stop existing… won’t they?
:thinking:

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…or we create better ones Finner :003:

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Removing all of their money sources, I.E. the users that bring in the advertising, seems… difficult, you can’t really herd cats/humans that way, lol.

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let me know when it’s ready :smiley:

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