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by loup-vaillant 3053 days ago
I was hypothesising Facebook being unreasonable. And their business model could very well be incompatible with GDPR. They're an ad company that feeds on personal data. I'm not sure they can get the informed consent of most of their users for this.

Simply put, GDPR could be reasonable and sue Facebook to death (at least within its borders).
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madez 3053 days ago
Facebook can be compliant with the GDPR and be profitable. They must change, however.
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mseebach 3053 days ago
But that would not be a politically acceptable outcome. There will be so unbelievably many free votes for the "Bring Facebook back" party that they will barely need to campaign.

Also, by the way, this won't bring about the development of "our own" alternatives. Being European doesn't confer any particular skills required to build a GDPR-compatible Facebook, if Facebook itself can't even build it themselves.

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loup-vaillant 3053 days ago
> There will be so unbelievably many free votes for the "Bring Facebook back" party that they will barely need to campaign.

Hence my predicting that traditional media would gang up against Facebook. It wouldn't be the first time there's a disconnect between television and the people. (Who's right is a separate issue.)

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