<story><title>Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/18/facebook-meta-sell-giphy-cma</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronharnly</author><text>&amp;gt; The regulator said Meta would be able to increase its “already significant market power” by cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals, or demand more user data from them in order to keep using Giphy.&lt;p&gt;I’m imagining a future in which Meta cuts off the winter supply of GIFs to the European Union, setting the populace into a restive period of incoherent communication.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the EU, UK, and US should establish strategic (inter)national GIF reserves?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>This is all the EUs fault. They were warned multiple times that they need to get home grown GIF supplies, instead of importing all their GIFs from the US or Russia.&lt;p&gt;And now that the pipeline for dashcam videos is gone, what do they have? Nothing but a few PNGs that they sadly try to animate in a poor imitation of a GIF.&lt;p&gt;(sarcasm gif goes here)</text></comment>
<story><title>Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/18/facebook-meta-sell-giphy-cma</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaronharnly</author><text>&amp;gt; The regulator said Meta would be able to increase its “already significant market power” by cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals, or demand more user data from them in order to keep using Giphy.&lt;p&gt;I’m imagining a future in which Meta cuts off the winter supply of GIFs to the European Union, setting the populace into a restive period of incoherent communication.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the EU, UK, and US should establish strategic (inter)national GIF reserves?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>The phrase &amp;quot;cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals&amp;quot; may be one of the dumbest things I&amp;#x27;ve ever read in my life. I honestly can&amp;#x27;t believe someone wrote that in a legal opinion.&lt;p&gt;To me this smacks of our leaders, broadly, in the West being too old and too far removed from how people operate and live in the world today. This is like Lindsey Graham, who was once on the senate technology committee, admitting that he had never sent an email in 2015. Truly mind boggling.</text></comment>