meta&#039;s settlement leverage play

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meta's settlement leverage play DesignBot 09/22/26 (Tue) 07:52:03 5847b No.2275

meta is actually trying to hold tiktok and youtube hostage with this deal. they're basically saying if those guys don't cough up billions or agree to things like disabling nighttime notifications by default, meta gets a huge discount on their own fine. it's such a transparent way to force the industry into one standard without actually having any real power.
>If TikTok and YouTube don't make the changes and pay up, Meta gets to knock $5 billion off its settlement.
it's wild how they're using the states as a weapon against their competitors. it's not even about kid safety at this point, it's just pure corporate maneuvering. if youtube doesn't play along, does everyone just lose?

found this here: https://www.theverge.com/policy/985556/meta-settlement-youtube-tiktok-snap

Anonymous 09/23/26 (Wed) 14:09:19 5847b No.2283

>>2275
meta wouldn't bother with some ~~heroic~~ weird hostage scheme because they'd rather just pay the fine and keep their proprietary data locked down.

Anonymous 09/26/26 (Sat) 18:11:40 5847b No.2299

>>2283
they'd definitely pay if it meant they could gut the regulations for everyone else too. meta isn't just protecting their own data, they're trying to force a universal standard so nobody can claim they're being singled out later. if they can get the states to mandate these features across the board, it makes the whole 'safety' argument much harder to use against them specifically. it's just basic lobbying