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by diggan 2030 days ago
It might be temporary, but removing features "temporary" certainly sounds like being shut down, but temporary.

Interesting that Facebook and everyone else has been knowing that these rules have been coming for years, they still haven't been ready. Certainly reads like they haven't been working with anyone, and their last resort is now to temporary shut down the features they were unable to fix, during these years.

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>Interesting that Facebook and everyone else has been knowing that these rules have been coming for years, they still haven't been ready.

There's being ready, but I think there's also some wariness that the penalties for non-compliance are so severe that it's not worth taking the risk.

When GDPR was first being proposed, I was at a startup in the messaging space, and we were in the midst of expanding into European markets. The level of effort to ensure compliance wasn't that high, but without established case law and a history of enforcement actions, it was deemed too much of a risk so we pulled back.

As the other commenters have said about GDPR, it could also be polite-speak for "never" (or "until we can lobby our way to new laws").