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by pillusmany 827 days ago
Not a credible threat. There would be millions of people in the streets if Facebook/Whatsapp/Google were blocked due to EU regulations.
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Don't really think so. Whatsapp was blocked many times in my country and the only thing it caused was for companies to realize they were relying too much on it and for people start using telegram.
what are you talking about?
Believe it or not, a lot of people like FAANG products and use them daily.

Imagine taking away your toddler's favorite toy. Forever.

You are joking if you think that Facebook being down would cause protests.
There was a year of protests over a 0.02 EUR/liter fuel tax.
You think normal people give a shit about this whole thing? The moment Facebook doesn’t work in Europe people are voting out everyone who had anything to do with this.
I am a heavy technology user, and I don’t care about alternative app stores. Your everyday user cares even less.
People lost their minds when Meta went down for like an hour the other day...
It was 4 hours according to their status page. [1]

[1] https://metastatus.com/facebook-login/history