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Changes Ahead for Big Tech When EU Regulations Enforced

The European Union’s implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is poised to trigger worldwide changes on familiar platforms like Google, Instagram, Wikipedia and YouTube. The DSA addresses consumer safety while the DMA deals with antitrust issues. Proponents say the new laws will help end the era of self-regulating tech companies. Although as in the U.S., the DSA makes clear that platforms aren’t liable for illegal user-generated content. Unlike U.S. law, the DSA does allow users to sue when tech firms are made aware of harmful content but fail to remove it. ...

For Big Tech “companies to decide what is and what isn’t forbidden without any separation of power, without any accountability, without any reporting, without any possibility to contest, it’s very dangerous,” Henri Verdier, the French ambassador for digital affairs, told Technology Review. ...

Politico confirms that “TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have now confirmed they will face the strictest rules under the EU’s content-moderation law, the Digital Services Act.” The European Commission can impose fines of up to 6 percent of a company’s annual global revenue if it finds that VLOPs violate DSA rules.

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