Aral BalkanFolks, the reason #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg hasn’t launched #Threads in the #EU isn’t because the EU is determined to protect your privacy, it’s because the EU is determined to protect The Single Market (peace be upon it) from anticompetitive behaviour. It’s because they’re using Instagram to launch Threads and sharing data between them (and not with EU startups that might want to use that data too). It’s #antitrust, not #privacy. It’s markets, not people.
By the way, it’s possible that #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg’s fediverse play for Threads is related to sidestepping the anti-competitiveness/antitrust issues around the EU’s Digital Services Act.
“Hey, look, we’re not a monopoly. We’re not being anticompetitive… we’re federating using an open protocol. Here, let our friend Eugen, CEO of Mastodon, explain to you how it works in very dispassionate words…”
#eu #ec #fediverse #mastodon #antitrust #DigitalServicesAct #PR #usefulIdiots
DeusWe’re not being anticompetitive… we’re federating using an open protocol.
Or META could go ahead with ‘supporting’ Mastodon (a nonprofit) like Google does Mozilla (a foundation). Has anyone even thought of why ‘Mastodon’ was mentioned? (see PIC).
As for Google supporting Mozilla, Chrome ‘needs a rival’ in Firefox and Google supports Mozilla (the foundation) for a reason.
Don’t tell me to buy Mozilla’s justification of, “we have business relationship with Google so we set Google as the default search engine.”