Facebook Needs to Start Doing This According to EU Industry Chief

EU industry commissioner Thierry Breton announced this week that social media giant Facebook needs to start adapting to the EU’s standards.

According to Breton, who was a former CEO of French telecom provider Orange and French technology company Atos, Facebook’s proposed internet rules are insufficient.

He told reporters after a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “It’s not for us to adapt to this company, it’s for this company to adapt to us.”

Zuckerberg had told reporters he had a good, wide-ranging conversation with Breton.

Facebook had issued a discussion paper on Monday rejecting what it calls intrusive regulations and has suggested looser rules.

EU justice chief Vera Jourova, who also met Zuckerberg, said, “Facebook cannot push away all the responsibility. Facebook and Mr Zuckerberg have to answer themselves a question ‘who do they want to be’ as a company and what values they want to promote.”

“It will not be up to governments or regulators to ensure that Facebook wants to be a force of good or bad.”

Breton will announce proposals later this week that are set to exploit the EU’s trove of industrial data and challenging the dominance of Facebook, Google and Amazon.

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