Facebook has never had a particularly great relationship with its users. In fact, I know many people who are seemingly only one minor aggravating point away from quitting from it entirely. Following a report via via ITWire,, however, it seems that the social media platform may be considering taking that decision for them as an official legal filing by Facebook (well, technically Meta, but I'm never going to call them that!) has cited that the tech giant is considering a complete withdrawal of its platform in Europe. The reasons behind is that a recent ruling by European courts effectively blocked US authorities from having the right to collect personal data from EU citizens without their expressed consent. Why is this a problem? Well, not only does Facebook hold a lot of information about its users, but it also actively looks to collect more of it for the purpose of targeted advertising. You know, that whole business of you casually searching for a new pair of shoes then finding practically every website you visit crammed full of adverts for Ugs, Nike, Adidas, etc. (other shoe brands are available). Put simply, if the EU court doesn't consider rescinding this action, Facebook is legitimately threatening to terminate its services within the region entirely!

If you want to hear my opinion, it is without any doubt a 100% empty threat. Facebook is already trying to reassure investors by effectively lying about the growth the platform has (not) achieved in recent years. The latest results with the stock down 25% will only confirm that I am telling the truth. I don't think Mr. Zuckerberg is exactly in a position to jump out of the box. Just effectively wiping out hundreds of millions of people over a dispute over targeted advertising makes literally no sense :-) It's similar to Biden's threats of sanctions on Russia. Biden just got Russia to start trading more with China instead of Europe now. I've never really commented much on any news here. However, the world is getting so crazy that I feel the need to write something about it from time to time. Because freedom, which is really very important to me in life, is disappearing. It has disappeared completely for Americans and unfortunately it is starting to spread to Europe where I live. Do you still feel that you can say whatever you want in this country without any sanctions? A lot of people here in the Czech Republic are now in trouble on Facebook, Instagram, they are being banned just for writing 5 years ago that someone is an asshole. Often it's not just a ban, but a complete deletion of the account without the person being able to do anything. And this brings me to what I started to write, maybe it wouldn't be better news if Facebook and Instagram and META's other networks disappeared from the world, I'm convinced we'd all be better off. That's it Mr. Zuckerberg, shut down Facebook in Europe! We don't need or want it then :-)