This story keeps shooting up to the front page, and I hope the mods keep wiping it. Utterly unfit for the site. No intellectual curiosity, no big announcement, vacuous, hate train. Easy wipe. Poof!

I don’t like excluding the possibility of a substantive comment. So please prove me wrong. If you want to comment on this, be particularity thoughtful.

This story is almost two years old. A much more recent one is here: https://itwire.com/listed-tech/meta-threatens-to-pull-facebo...

Clearly Facebook isn't yet in a hurry to leave, and it's quite likely all bluff, which I doubt is going to have much effect on the EU.

Personally I wouldn't mind seeing Facebook gone.

" This article is more than 1 year old"

And still, they're still here. It will not happen.

The upside of belonging to the richest market in the world (at least for now) is that you can occasionally tell vendors "fine, i'll go elsewhere then" - and they will lower their prices.

As an European I welcome this, they don't give a rat's ass about privacy.

Unfortunately Facebook (Meta) are still in Europe almost 2 years later. It was clearly an empty threat.

(2020)

As an european I say go ahead, this would only make room for european alternatives which would probably only be good for everyone.

I really hope that the EU doesn't care about these imo empty threats.