This is outrageous and shows exactly why the EU is a joke in everyway. Besides FB is headquartered here in the US, the EU cant force anything on FB unless they wanna get in a dispute with the US government as well.
At this point the only reason I find for keeping the EU is economic reasons, if there was a way to do Brexit without hurting the UK in the long run economically I would support that wholeheartedly . I have nothing but contempt left for the EU.
I think the EU has fined US corporations in the past and they've paid the fines. Microsoft and Apple come to mind. I imagine Facebook will pay a fine as well if necessary, though this decision is indeed terrible, I agree with you.
Regarding Brexit, while all options (minus EFTA/EEA membership, which is pretty much the same as EU membership except you don't get a vote) would do economic harm, some (no deal brexit) are more harmful than others (say, May's deal).
This is outrageous and shows exactly why the EU is a joke in everyway. Besides FB is headquartered here in the US, the EU cant force anything on FB unless they wanna get in a dispute with the US government as well.
At this point the only reason I find for keeping the EU is economic reasons, if there was a way to do Brexit without hurting the UK in the long run economically I would support that wholeheartedly . I have nothing but contempt left for the EU.
Lol, a few generally minor and (especially in this case) inflated mistakes of some beaurocrat or other is just not worth all the peace and prosperity! But it doesn't matter what you think. You don't feel all the positive effects of the EU, and don't care to understand them. It's a good thing you're not a European and your contempt doesn't matter.
While i tend to agree with you, Israeliguy, you arent european either and dont feel any of the negative effects of the E.U.. I hate to admit it, but the american posters do have one point: the EU wants to do too much, to the point of excessively burdening our lives with regulation. When i went to the eye doctor yesterday, for instance i had to sign a long form that i allow the doctor to use my medical information-due to a EU data protection regulation. Completely stupid obviously. And there are many more examples like this (Article 13....).
Overall the positive benefits of the E.U. outweigh, as you said, and the american posters who think its becoming a eurofascist dictatorship are crazy obviously.
Still, how many of those regulations would have a national equivalent anyways?
Speaking of data protection for example, the EU's regulation was apparently passed in 2016 and effective 2018. However at least here we've had a nationl data protection regulation as far back as 1999! (which also requires you to sign on medical information). In fact I didn't even know the law was an EU law now (most still just mention the Spanish data protection law)
As funny as "EU regulations on the curvature of bananas" sound, that isn't really the real truth.
Article 11 (Article 13's lesser known brother) also had equivalent regulations in Germany (with a loophole) and Spain (no loophole so Google News and the like closed).
