[snowpid]

Honestly Meta is just plain stupid. These formats are an informal way to avoid strong regulation but solve problems and used in many settings of govermental regulation as a first try. Snubbing them will increase the chance of hard regulation.

I guess Zucki, Meta and SV folks (proofed on HN itself) just drunk too much "EU is declining because of regulation" and it will end like Lightning and Apple.

[skeledrew]

Stupid how? There's nothing regulation-worthy about banning users who aren't in some legally binding contract that'd make the action a breach of terms.

[TheOtherHobbes]

You can't use Meta without agreeing to "some legally binding contract."

[skeledrew]

There's nothing in any of those contracts about guaranteeing users will always have access to the(ir?) accounts. Anything pro-user in them that's not also pro-company will have been mandated by law, and account access isn't.

[snowpid]

Hmm if a company is so important, it needs to regulate on case basis and needs to open not just on their criteria. Thats the price a network has to pay.

[mrits]

The US is moving rapidly away from EU towards Asia. EU acts like they are driving this.

[kaveh_h]

Asia will ignore US deals, especially on social media. Look at Australia are even more hawkish than EU. Japan and South Korea are more culturally close to China when it comes to social harmony and the will probably follow suit when it comes to be strict on social media even if they allow US media it will be by much stricter rules than US.

[mrits]

Japan and China go together like Nazi Germany and Israel

[snowpid]

are you sure? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o

https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/defense/japan-eyes-european...

[riffraff]

Japan is also already in the world's largest free trade agreement with the EU[0] and in a joint development program for a next generation fighter plane with Italy and the UK[1].

The US has squandered a massive amount of goodwill since the first Trump presidency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93European_Union_C...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Combat_Air_Programme