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Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram (techcrunch.com)

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Meta said on Monday that it plans to “temporarily” shutter Threads in Turkey from April 29, in response to an interim injunction imposed by the Turkish competition authority last month over the way Meta shares data between Threads and Instagram.

The Turkish Competition Authority (TCA), known as Rekabet Kurumu, noted on March 18 that its investigations found that Meta was abusing its dominant market position by combining the data of users who create Threads profiles with that of their Instagram account — without giving users the choice to opt-in.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

This seems like a reasonable thing to require of services that aren't dependent on each other for basic functionality.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

This seems like a reasonable thing to require of services that aren’t dependent on each other for basic functionality.

They don't. All Meta/Facebook services can be decoupled since the EU enforces the DMA gatekeeper status. Meta just needs to add Turkey to the same decoupling whitelist as the EU countries, and the issue is immediately solved.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Zuck is far too greedy to do that. I bet he was at the private meeting discussion of whether shock collars would keep his security detail in line.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Seems like the type of thing that if you cared about it you wouldn't use a Meta product in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

From a government and societal perspective, there's value in limiting anti-competative activities.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I am using their competitor's products without issue, so I'm not seeing how this is anticompetitive.

But I do hate Meta.

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