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0 pointspixelgeek4y ago0 comments

They are still operating under an FTC order that they effectively ignore.

They were fined and they deliberately took a bigger fine to protect their CEO.

They ignored calls for their CEO to appear before parliament in the UK and Canada. Ignored.

I am not fully aware of the state of legislative action in the UK from the Cambridge/Brexit issue but that hasn't gone anywhere.

They are far too large to be legislated. They have too much money to fine. What possible options other than shutting the company down exist that Facebook wouldn't either pay with their 'spare change' fund or bury with lobbyists?

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Clubber4y ago

They donated $8M to US political campaigns in 2020. Everything else is just theater.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/facebook-inc/totals?id=D000...

judge20204y ago

> They ignored calls for their CEO to appear before parliament in the UK and Canada. Ignored.

They're playing hardball. They know the only way these other countries can do anything, even with legislation that FB would ignore, is by either blocking the website (which would encourage the silent majority to suddenly speak up and would hurt the decision maker's chances of re-election) or sanctioning the US, which nobody is going to do.

phone86753094y ago

They could "extraordinarily rendition" the everloving shit out of Zuck - that might change Facebook's tune.

JumpCrisscross4y ago

> too large to be legislated

You haven't cited any legislation.

The FTC is not powerful enough to regulate Facebook; the U.K. and Canada were snubbed by them--agreed. But none of that is legislation.

(To be clear, Facebook is more powerful than some legislatures. But not the Congress. Not by a long shot.)

pixelgeekOP4y ago

> You haven't cited any legislation.

Because I didn't reference any. I mentioned 'legislators' and not legislation.

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