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No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here (www.independent.ie)
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Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (7 children)

The article doesn’t go into detail, but I am surprised they can launch in the UK but not EU, since the UK took the EU regulations on after Brexit? I was under the impression currently privacy law is identical still with UK and EU

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

    In other news of the day, the Court of Justice of the European Union ( #CJEU ) declared that a shitty attempt by Meta to avoid abiding to GDPR was unlawful, and that they have to actually comply and not just add some bullshit loophole into the terms of service.

    I read this as Meta's response: "Fine, you won't get to participate in our brand new shiny social network then". Joke's on them, the EU is already on the Fediverse running its own Mastodon instance.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    To get people out of cars, it's absolutely to get the elderly on bicycles. I'm not talking about people in their 90s; but getting the 50-to-80s cadre cycling will change society. It will end forever the image of the cyclist as an arrogant young man, and make cycling obviously what it is: functional, sensible, the most essential way to save our climate, and to save our health

    wtf?!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Did you respond to the wrong post?

    This seems to be some toot posted to mastodon.ie - if you somehow saw it on the EU instance it's just because they're federated. The purpose of the instance is for EU institutions to have accounts to post from, it's not really intended for casual surfing. :)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I'm surprised by that too, although reading between the lines of the article suggests to me that it's a result of some specific engagement with the Irish regulator that has led to them pausing the EU launch - so it's not a result of a prima facie reading of the law (which should be the same), but rather some Irish regulatory action taken in GDPR's name.

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