niartenyaw@midwest.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’English
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2 months agook but I’m not in the EU nor is my instance so that doesn’t really apply to me.
ok but I’m not in the EU nor is my instance so that doesn’t really apply to me.
yeah, I see them being posted into their DB (and therefore federated as) a post as if they are a user. they can earmark that post as an ad and properly present it as such in their own platform but anyone federated would see the post as-is.
they could either obfuscate how they mark it as an ad or just not provide that information at all to federating instances.
then I can totally see them claiming they don’t control other instances and can’t be responsible for whether or not the federated ads are presented as such.
they technically could do this by representing ads with posts.
companies are capable of operating under different rules in different jurisdictions, they do it all the time. just look at how they handle data in EU due to GDPR vs how they do it everywhere else. I don’t see why this case would be much different.