<story><title>UK regulator set to block Meta&apos;s Giphy deal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d say a way better approach is what was on HN recently where the chat platforms will have to enable 3rd party integrations effectively breaking the walled gardens. It makes way more sense to collapse the walls than distance and split the gardens</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>I want this to be the start of a forced breakup of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. There’s zero benefit to consumers, and a lot of harm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technofiend</author><text>Maybe I misunderstood your reasoning but it seems like you&amp;#x27;re suggesting that Whatsapp for instance is forced to let third party clients connect to their system? That still gives Facebook access to data I don&amp;#x27;t want them to have. The whole point is to cut these information brokers &lt;i&gt;entirely&lt;/i&gt; out of the loop, not force them into a compromise where they get some of what they want anyway.</text></comment>
<story><title>UK regulator set to block Meta&apos;s Giphy deal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/uk-regulator-set-block-metas-giphy-deal-ft-2021-11-29/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d say a way better approach is what was on HN recently where the chat platforms will have to enable 3rd party integrations effectively breaking the walled gardens. It makes way more sense to collapse the walls than distance and split the gardens</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>I want this to be the start of a forced breakup of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. There’s zero benefit to consumers, and a lot of harm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tester34</author><text>You mean Discord implementing XMPP?</text></comment>