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EU: European Parliament approves new rules governing digital giants

2022-07-05T11:17:07.061Z


Both texts were presented in December 2020 by the Commission and were negotiated for more than a year.


MEPs approved on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority the new legislation of the European Union to put an end to the abuse of power of the digital giants and to the zones of lawlessness on the internet.

The new legislation consists of two texts with, on the one hand, a regulation of digital markets (DMA) which must stem the anti-competitive practices of Gafam -Google, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Amazon and Microsoft, and the other, a Digital Services Regulation (DSA) to crack down on illegal content online.

These two texts were presented in December 2020 by the Commission before being the subject of negotiations for more than a year.

On Monday evening, Danish MEP Christel Schaldemose, rapporteur for the DSA, said: "Digital has developed a bit like in a western, there were no real rules of the game, but now there is a new sheriff in town.

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The DMA marks a change in philosophy in the fight against the abuse of large platforms.

Thus, Brussels wants to act upstream, by imposing on them twenty rules to be respected under penalty of dissuasive fines.

“It will no longer be the European Commission but the companies themselves who will have to prove that they allow free competition”, underlined the German MEP Andreas Schwab (EPP, right), rapporteur for the DMA.

For the DSA component, MEPs want with this text to put an end to the excesses of social networks which have hit the headlines in recent years, such as the assassination of history professor Samuel Paty in France after a hate campaign in October 2020, or the assault of demonstrators on the Capitol in the United States in January 2021, partly planned thanks to Facebook and Twitter.

Source: leparis

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