https://wccftech.com/germany-regulating-facebook-telecom/

Germany’s telecom regulator is after the Silicon Valley tech giants. The watchdog believes that the companies like Facebook and Google need to be regulated just like the telecom companies to keep these tech firms in line.

“What we are seeing is that the line between traditional telecommunications services and webbased services like Gmail and WhatsApp has become very blurred,” Jochen Homann, president of Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) told the Financial Times (paywall) earlier this week. “Users often cannot see any difference at all.”