[saddlerustle]

The consequence for not obliging with the online safety bill is pulling out from the UK market. The consequence for ignoring legally sound US court orders is Meta executives going to jail.

[Barrin92]

also as the Meta representative points out the UK is 2% of Whatsapp users. Honestly another reason why Brexit was a shot in their own foot. IF they'd gotten legislation like this through in the EU that'd be a much harder market to opt out of.

[wkat4242]

And the EU is in fact pushing for the same insanity under the "Chat Control" proposals.