Meta's antitrust trial could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedy2ygy50do

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reddig33@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 1y (9 replies)

Sell it to whom? Iโ€™d rather they have to spin it back off into its own company.

Same with WhatsApp. They should never have been allowed to buy either.

rtxn@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I kind of expect Google and Meta to 69 each other. Google takes over Insta, Meta takes over Chrome.

iii@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

That's a terrible deal for google

casmael@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Never mind Google what about the general public

iii@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What about the general public?

stray@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The idea is to break up these corporations, not just have them trade assets.

ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

Welcome to 'murica, where laws only apply if you're poor and/or an immigrant

Sarcophagus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Sell it to someone who can't run it who sells it again to someone who can't run it who sells all the information to someone who owned it originally which devalues the company so it gets sold back to the people who sold it because they knew this would happen

stray@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Aquaman?

Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

Fucking Aquaman, that's an important part of the quote

fox2263@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Suddenly Mark Zuckerberg makes anotherโ€™s โ€œdonationโ€ and poof, the trial mysteriously goes away.

ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

No no no, first the trial goes away, then, for no reason at all, the judge receives a mansion as a gift from zuckyfucker. It's not bribery if it's paid after the favor!

barnaclebutt@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Nah, he'll just bribe Trump and it won't happen. I suspect that's why Zuck is getting into the manoverse. Btw, why isn't the manoverse just called a midlife crisis?

Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 12 pts · 1y (6 replies)

For the same reason that IS citizens moving to other countries are called expats and not migrants.

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 13 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I think IS citizens are called terrorists wherever they go ๐Ÿ˜‰

Anti Commercial-AI license

DasAlbatross@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Did...did you fall for that old Facebook meme where if you posted something on your page they couldn't use your content?

onlinepersona@programming.dev · -9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

OMG you're the first one to make that joke! It's hilarious ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ Yeah man, I've been doing this for a year and never thought about why. Just copied it from some place and started using it, but thanks to your insightful comment, it convinced me to stop using it.

Thank you so much sweetie ๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜˜ Much love!

Anti Commercial-AI license

DasAlbatross@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Oh wow. You think you've actually found this ONE SIMPLE TRICK THAT AIs HATE!

Good to know that there's a good age range on Lemmy.

Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

Dammit now I can't fix the typo. Oh well, I think my point is so solid that everyone knows who I am talking about regardless :D

acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y

An expat is a temporary company transfer. A migrant is there to stay. What am I missing here?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y

This sparks joy

HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Might become Xtagram because no way Musk let a propaganda machine like that not go to waste

Telorand@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 1y

And it'll get rolled into his shitty AI grift company

stoy@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 1y

With the current political landscape?

Not likely.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 11 pts · 1y

It would be nice. Whilst insta has mostly supplanted twitter here in Japan for biz stuff, I still don't like meta owning it. I probably will create one (but fuck twitter) just to communicate with my customers, but I'd much rather it not belong to meta at that point. It's worth noting, I do plan on creating other accounts on federated media, but there's only so much one human with a fulltime job and a farm business can keep up with.

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

HAHAHA HE LOOKS LIKE THE ANGRY RAIN FROG HAHAHAHA

Anomalocaris@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

that's so mean, no frogge deserves to be compared to that thing

Parptarf@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

As someone who used to love pre-reels instagram a lot. I hope this happens.

Or that Pixelfed takes off

Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Pixel fed has a loooong way to go. The app is terrible.

noodlejetski@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

luckily you aren't forced to use the official app, like you are with Instagram. Pixelix is really good, for example.

Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

I'll look into that. I wasn't aware. I'd like to like it.