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This is more bark than bite, imo. They're just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:

• Europe's a big market and profit focused companies aren't going to give that up just to make a point
• Those that do will just encourage European competition to step up and fill whatever gaps might appear, which is just fine by the EU.

So... go right ahead. Let's see how this really plays out.

"Meta has decided not to release a new multimodal AI model and related products in the EU.

The move follows a similar decision last month by Apple to withhold its new Apple Intelligence features from Europe."

Oh no. Wait. Come back.

• Apple reversed log standing design policy to put a USB C charger in the iPhone because not selling iPhones in Europe was not a financially viable option.

• Apple won't launch their AI features in Europe because changing to comply with regulations is too hard

These features aren't that important then I guess?

We don't want your shitty products :)

Sounds like it's working to me.

Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.

Really hope so.

If your "product" is stealing my information for your "AI" or extorting me to buy "dongles", then please "withhold" it.

Corpo propaganda at it again...

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Oh.... no... please.... do not do that...

Anyways

oh no, not the products!

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

Could they withhold their existence while we're at it?..

Threatening a dog with a weiner I see. That's a bold strategy.

Oh no! Anyway...

It’s too bad the websites that do this don’t have to put a label on it in the U.S. Something like “Not for consumption in the E.U.” to make people wonder what’s going on.

This just in: good time threatened. O no

USA only wishes we were this cool.

Nice! Thank you EU for the GDPR!

For the next step, please let the companies that produce software be held accountable for damages. For Nonprofits change the target to associated companies. Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries. If the library was insufficiently supported by the developer, then the developer has no ground to sue for damages themselves.

This escalation will continue,

until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

They will simply say something like:

"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

They've already done so, in some places..

( Facebook & .. was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?

Nah you still get all of that but in a shitter product.