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The Council of State wants to regulate the jungle of social networks

2022-09-27T15:41:04.384Z


Securing data, protecting minors… The Elders of the Palais-Royal ask that control be given back to the user.


After the adoption, by the European Parliament, of the Digital Market Act and Digital Services Act texts, supposed to bring order to the "Far West" of the Internet, the Council of State is looking into the right way to manage social networks.

More than four billion individuals are connected to it, at the rate of 145 minutes per person per day on average.

In the mouth of the judges of the supreme administrative court, it is a question of creating

“a powerful regulation”,

at the height of the actors, in particular American, who dominate this part of the digital.

"In a logic of efficiency, it will be up to the European Commission to regulate the largest operators, while the Member States will do so for the smaller ones"

, specifies State Councilor Fabien Raynaud, who led this mission.

In other words, Europe will have to implement, at a forced march, new powerful tools to counter Google, Twitter, Facebook, but also Amazon and the major video game publishers.

"It would be…

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Source: lefigaro

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