Photo by Obi Onyeador on Unsplash [Download]

Fb asks for a moat of laws it already meets

It’s suspiciously handy that Fb already fulfills lots of the regulatory necessities it’s asking governments to put on the remainder of the tech business. Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels lobbying the Ecu Union’s regulators as they shape new rules to control artwork…
It’s suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements it’s asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels lobbying the European Union’s regulators as they form new laws to govern art…

Original article
Original article
Author: Josh Constine

TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

Josh Constine has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "There’s a strategic cost to the defection of Visa, Stripe, eBay, and more from the Facebook-led cryptocurrency Libra Association. They’re not just names dropping off a list. Each potentially made Libra more useful, ubiquitous, or reputable". (October 13, 2019)
  2. "Facebooks internal Supreme Court cant set precedents, cant make decisions about Facebook Dating or Marketplace, and cant oversee WhatsApp, Oculus, or any messaging feature, according to the bylaws Facebook proposed today for its Oversight Board". (January 28, 2020)
  3. "Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don’t. Not only are candidates dishonest, but voters aren’t educated, and the media isn’t objective. And now, hyperlinks turn lies into donations and donations into louder lies. The checks don’t balance". (October 14, 2019)
  4. "Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space? Now you can control what appears in the Facebook apps navigation bar thanks to a new option called Shortcut Bar Settings". (November 11, 2019)
  5. "Its an open secret that every company is on fire, says Kintaba co-founder John Egan. At any given moment something is going horribly wrong in a way that it has never gone wrong before. Code failure downtimes, server outages and hack attacks plague engineering teams". (February 10, 2020)
  6. "Facebook has diverted from its policy of not fact-checking politicians in order to prevent the spread of potentially harmful coronavirus misinformation from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro". (March 31, 2020)
  7. "Facebook is suffering from a massive bug in its News Feed spam filter, causing URLs to legitimate websites including Medium, Buzzfeed, and USA Today to be blocked from being shared as posts or comments". (March 18, 2020)
  8. "Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats". (February 18, 2020)
  9. "Facebook wants more people to know it owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus while still maintaining a distinct identity for its main app". (November 4, 2019)
  10. "After eBay, Visa, Stripe, and other high-profile partners ditched the Facebook -backed cryptocurrency collective, Libra scored a win today with the addition of Shopify". (February 21, 2020)
Posted on  ,