South Africa Regulator Refers Meta To Tribunal Over Dominance

South Africa's Competition Commission says it had referred Facebook and WhatsApp owner Meta Platforms to a tribunal for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market. From a report: But a spokesperson for WhatsApp said the regulator was objecting to actions meant to protect the platform's users from abuses of WhatsApp's terms. In a statement, the regulator accused Meta of "abusing its dominance by engaging in exclusionary conduct geared at preventing competitors or potential competitors from entering into, participating, and expanding in a market". The commission said Meta had decided to "offboard" GovChat (a start-up that connects government and citizens) and its subsidiary #LetsTalk from its WhatsApp Business Application Programming Interface. It also said the company had "imposed and/or selectively enforced exclusionary terms and conditions regulating access to the WhatsApp Business API, mainly restrictions on the use of data".

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[AmiMoJo]

Shouldn't that be "South African Regulator"?

I guess you would say UK Regulator or US Regulator, but would you say Japan Regulator? That sounds like an organization that regulates Japan, not an organization of the Japanese state.

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[africanrhino]

It’s not a regulator though, they get that wrong the commission can only for an opinion with recommendations to a tribunal who hears arguments who can then send it to the actual regulatory body who can then make recommendations to the npaeven then it has to go though the courts.. like 4 layers of court are available to fight this..

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[drinkypoo]

Personally I'd just say "South Africa" and then explain what organization did what in the summary. Since the commission is question is part of their national government, it would be an accurate statement.

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