Meta Platforms Inc.’s veiled threat to quit Europe because of blocked talks over privacy rules was more like music to the ears of two top German and French politicians.
“After being hacked I’ve lived without Facebook and Twitter for four years and life has been fantastic,” German Economy Minister Robert Habeck told reporters at an event alongside French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Paris on Monday.
“I can confirm that life is very good without Facebook and that we would live very well without Facebook,” Le Maire added. “Digital giants must understand that the European continent will resist and affirm its sovereignty.”
The pair were responding to comments in Meta’s annual report published Thursday, warning that if it couldn’t rely on new or existing agreements to shift data, then it would “likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe.”
The European Union “is such a big internal market with so much economic power that if we act in unity we won’t be intimidated by something like this,” Habeck said.
Meanwhile Le Maire listed ways in which European governments have challenged tech giants, including with privacy rules, taxation and blocking the development of digital currencies.
Why don't europeans create their own tech companies. Only the brits do. France and Germany are backwards as fuck. Wirecard was the only tech success in Germany and look how that turned out.
Gabriel Perez
quality asian verbal IQ
Sebastian Bell
I never made a facebook and still don't understand twitter or its ui
I thought facebook was something like bebo when everyone moved to it from myspace
I had a myspace and I fucking hated it, made me feel depressed because it looked like you were missing out, I wasn't but it gave you the illusion that when you were not doing anything everyone else was
this. i still have trouble discerning how to read a twitter post when some user posts one for a thread. i cant readily tell who is owning or btfoing whom. so gay. and i hope it comes crashing down
Brayden Thomas
based. fuck faceberg. I wonder people are still using it
Liam Bell
jew subverts on suicide watch
Gavin Rivera
>people using faceshit to organise protests >faceshit and eurocucks are okay to shut it down
Hmmmm, really makes me think
Noah King
Holy fuck you two people are OLD.
Luke Reyes
We all know they will replace it with something worse.
Dylan Powell
Now do every social media site and major tech company, and society will be much better.
Dylan Adams
I wish we could show you "the before time" so you know what they took from you...
Kinda is, all algorivvums bombard people with negative shit non-stop causing people to become hyperbolic and insane. The dehumanization aspect is the most dire threat to a stable world. Also shitbags and brownies without impulse control carry that shit over to real life
Enterprise blotware that boomers purchase for millions so they can hire their boomer friends on as consultants. No one installs SAP and uses it. You have to have a small army of consultants to set it up for you and keep it running. What worse is even with all of that it's still complete trash that appears to have fallen through a wormhole from the 1970s.
Aaron Johnson
I never had one, had the paranoid thought in 2008 when facebook was popping off that it would be used by the govt to track people. Little did I know it would be so much worse with the govt, corporations, and anyone motivated to track other people.
Europe can't innovate so it sabotages the successful.
Caleb Ross
It's Europe, they don't have to. But it makes a damn good argument towards Europe locking it's internet down like Russia or China do. They won't have to deal with pesky things like people using twitter/facebook to coordinate protests or non-approved "activism"
Lincoln Diaz
This looks like the room of a dude too young to have lived it so they made their room with all old shit. Like a retro period correct bedroom.
Thomas Carter
These politicians should be threatening to throw Zuckerberg in prison if he dares try to poison the European people with his vile creations. Anything less is siding with the Devil.
Zachary Powell
>Europe can't innovate kek, peak american comment. this id your brain in the Metaverse
Jeremiah James
you guys make good sprockets and metal gears and stuff, but Europe has no tech scene outside the UK and anyone with aspirations in that area moves to the US. It's why your per-capita GDP is lower than West Virginia.
John Murphy
Why don't they add a anime gf who watches you play
James Campbell
Don't you realize all of that 'good' media was just bait to lure you into the current hell we are in now? It was a bait and switch user, and we all fell for it.
Jonathan Clark
>per capita income yeah keep sperging out about that. you realize that your super rich fucks increase it to the point retards like you believe in it while the average worker is poor as fuck plus having immense living costs?
Eli White
murishart living in Germany, this is actually facts, the 'tech' scene here, let alone in Berlin, is a fucking joke.
