The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should
intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for
breaching antitrust rules and committing other violations, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said late Friday.
Zuckerberg complained that the EU had forced U.S. tech companies
operating in Europe to pay "more than $30 billion" in penalties for
legal violations over the past two decades. Last November, the tech
chief's Meta conglomerate, which operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
and other social media and communications platforms, was fined €797
million for breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing unfair trading conditions on ads service providers.
Zuckerberg argued that the European Commission's application of
competition rules is "almost like a tariff" on American tech companies
and said that U.S. President Joe Biden's outgoing administration had
failed to deal with the situation.
"If some other country was screwing with another industry that we cared about, the U.S. government would probably find some way to put pressure
on them, but I think what happened here is actually the complete
opposite," he said. "The U.S. government led the kind of attack against
the companies, which then just made it so the EU is basically in all
these other places, just free to just go to town on all the American companies and do whatever you want."
https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from- screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
If you want to play, you follow them rules-are-rules.
On 1/12/2025 6:13 AM, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should
intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for
breaching antitrust rules and committing other violations, Meta chief
executive Mark Zuckerberg said late Friday.
Zuckerberg complained that the EU had forced U.S. tech companies
operating in Europe to pay "more than $30 billion" in penalties for
legal violations over the past two decades. Last November, the tech
chief's Meta conglomerate, which operates Facebook, Instagram,
WhatsApp and other social media and communications platforms, was
fined €797 million for breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing unfair
trading conditions on ads service providers.
Zuckerberg argued that the European Commission's application of
competition rules is "almost like a tariff" on American tech companies
and said that U.S. President Joe Biden's outgoing administration had
failed to deal with the situation.
"If some other country was screwing with another industry that we
cared about, the U.S. government would probably find some way to put
pressure on them, but I think what happened here is actually the
complete opposite," he said. "The U.S. government led the kind of
attack against the companies, which then just made it so the EU is
basically in all these other places, just free to just go to town on
all the American companies and do whatever you want."
https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from- screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
If you want to play, you follow them rules-are-rules.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg only cares about expanding his own universe...and
the money stream it provides. His current thoughts are, "If I fail with
one candidate, I will quickly start to suck up to the other one."
The EU has fined Meta for obvious privacy violations often, yet he has
always paid those fines and continued with his previous behavior.
Apparently it is profitable for this money slut.
What a stand up guy Mark Zuckerberg is...NOT!
On 16/01/2025 5.01, Scall5 wrote:
On 1/12/2025 6:13 AM, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should
intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for
breaching antitrust rules and committing other violations, Meta chief
executive Mark Zuckerberg said late Friday.
Zuckerberg complained that the EU had forced U.S. tech companies
operating in Europe to pay "more than $30 billion" in penalties for
legal violations over the past two decades. Last November, the tech
chief's Meta conglomerate, which operates Facebook, Instagram,
WhatsApp and other social media and communications platforms, was
fined €797 million for breaching EU antitrust rules by imposing
unfair trading conditions on ads service providers.
Zuckerberg argued that the European Commission's application of
competition rules is "almost like a tariff" on American tech
companies and said that U.S. President Joe Biden's outgoing
administration had failed to deal with the situation.
"If some other country was screwing with another industry that we
cared about, the U.S. government would probably find some way to put
pressure on them, but I think what happened here is actually the
complete opposite," he said. "The U.S. government led the kind of
attack against the companies, which then just made it so the EU is
basically in all these other places, just free to just go to town on
all the American companies and do whatever you want."
https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-
from- screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
If you want to play, you follow them rules-are-rules.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg only cares about expanding his own
universe...and the money stream it provides. His current thoughts are,
"If I fail with one candidate, I will quickly start to suck up to the
other one."
The EU has fined Meta for obvious privacy violations often, yet he has
always paid those fines and continued with his previous behavior.
Apparently it is profitable for this money slut.
What a stand up guy Mark Zuckerberg is...NOT!
I think Zuck just discovered that Elon might be smarter than Zuck gave
him credit for.
But can Twump trust this army of flip-floppers?
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