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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not naive enough to assume Facebook would open up their walled garden.

[–] jalda@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

But they will be forced to.

sigh

Reading the links provided would have stopped you from writing this comment.

including fines of up to 10% of the worldwide turnover.

No company is going to risk losing 10% of all their total monies for non-compliance.

Facebook is estimated to make 116.6 billion US dollars per year. They will not give up 11.7 billion dollars every year as a fine.