These tech broligarchs are the whiniest fucking piss baby weenies on the planet. These are the representatives of American power right now. What a fucking disgrace.
That’s literally a threat to their sovereignty.
They should say “fuck that”, block Meta, and seize all his European assets until he falls in line.
The EU is way too liberal to seize his assets. This will never happen. They’ll gladly bow down to the US hegemony and the US fascist regime before they lift a finger. We’ll just hear a bunch of strong words of condemnation (if we even hear anything at all lol) and that’s about it.
Mark Zuckerberg is a whiny cunt.
Easily the dumbest and least innovative of the silicon valley megabillionaires.
Seriously, Facebook was not even the first Social Media of it’s type. Truly bizarre that this guy has earned so much.
Is Friendster detrademarked yet? It would be a great name for a friendica instance.
Yeah, I honestly did not really understand why Myspace was that big of deal (other than for bands trying to make it - it did seem like a useful platform for that) and I didn’t really see what distinguished FB as anything remarkably better? Maybe it was just more addictive, and that’s it. I still get annoyed when someone sends me a FB link to something, because usually to read much of it, I have to log in. FFS, walled garden? Why not send me a link to a Compuserve forum or something?
…but it still makes me laugh that starting around the time of FB’s ascent, the notion of technical/media literacy jumped from actual literacy in either/both of those things, to knowing your way around a particular brand’s version of that, all while dumping on the last set of now-deemed-uncool-by-the-cool-kids brands. So, at one point, it was all the hilarity to bash someone still using Myspace, while being on Facebook. Now it’s moved onto dunking on “boomers” still using Facebook with any kind of frequency and proclaiming that only the people on TikTok really “get it”.
WTF is there to get? This is a brand thing. People sliding their finger around on a screen, engaged with an algorithm meant to treat them like someone at a slot machine are probably actively getting stupider about both tech and media, regardless of the brand they happen to be using. This is like saying someone drinking Coke doesn’t really get it, because “Pepsi is the choice of a new generation”. Brainless.
EU should ban Meta like the US is banning Tiktok
You mean that if the bribe is interesting enough, the timeline can be arranged?
Meta just asking to be fined in the EU.
EU should block Meta full stop.
God, what a bright, glorious day that would be.
What a fucking man child.
I’m still having hard time processing that these are the kind of fuckers that the world has to bend its knees too. These billionaires are fucking parasites to all and need to go straight to the guillotine.
God these tech billionaires have such thin skin. Bunch of whiney bitch boys, the lot of 'em!
Do they realize the EU is a foreign group of countries, with separate legislation and autonomous power?
Literally no. They can not wrap their heads around the idea that other people have agency.
I assume they expect them to cower to political/economic threats. Which they may do.
Or not. Thinga are getting heated and there are people losing patience with these extremists.
But probably they will, sadly.
We will have to wait and see. And press matters against politians, if things start to go awry.
I’m thinking Mark needs the EU more than they need him…
Yeah if they shut out Facebook I’m willing to bet a properly funded EU-based company could fairly quickly build up similar infrastructure. /srs
Pushing an open-source alternative like Friendica would be ideal but either way the globally anti-competitive nature of giant social corporations has gone on too long; a breaking point for innovation is overdue.
Given that the EU has accounts on Mastodon, why not check all the list and make every government in the EU have their own AP servers? Not only Mastodon but Lemmy, Pixelfed, Peertube, …
Luckily for Zuckerberg, then, Meta isn’t unfairly punished. It’s going to be punished quite fairly.
“I’m telling Mom!!!”
Zuck is such a beta.
Also, they were banned with Russia and China, maybe start w there
I cannot for the life of me imagine being worth $200B and still being willing to kiss anyone’s ass, let alone Trump’s.
even if meta went poof tomorrow he could never work another day in his life and live more lavishly than 99.9% of all humans who have ever lived.
Cuckerberg. It’s right there.
I think that’s the starting point anyway. WWIII, fought over Facebook 🤦♂️
Trump will not fight war against China or Russia, except “trade war” which is hurting Americans more than China. .
In Russia because of Putin’s opposition being there. Prob same in China.
Meta is the Karen of tech companies.
