The EU giveth (removable batteries, mandated USB-C) and it taketh away
violations could bring fines worth up to 6 percent of their global revenue – which could amount to billions – or even a ban from the EU.
Not too shabby! Seems like the laws at least have some teeth.
Wish GDPR had the same kind of teeth.
It does, mostly. Fines go up to 4% or global revenue (not profits, revenue!) for large companies. The thing is, those fines are reserved only for the worst cases, and not even Facebook has managed to be bad enough to get fined for the full 4%.
In theory a GDPR fine for a megacorporation could be tens of billions of euros. In practice it’s hard to prove to the judge that a company deserves a fine that high.
No better source than Al-Jazeera?
Genuinely ignorant, what wrong with Al-Jazeera? Sure, it’s biased on some topics, but aren’t all news sources?
I find Al-Jazeera’s covering of these topics to be quite objective.
You can find more details on the EU website: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act-package
Here’s the exact same article on an American website: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-22/europe-sweeping-new-rules-tech-giants-google-facebook-tiktok
And now we should ask ourselves who copied whose homework.
So it’s the “We can take down what we don’t like”-Act
Oh God no, the horror that the EU could remove content that promotes hatred!
But muh cOnSerVatiVe VoiCeS!!
This law goes both ways. Left or right, extremism comes from every side.
BoTh SiDeS
The problem is usually in the broadness of the definition. Less democratic regimes can easily use this to forbid material about opposing views and parties. Double-edged sword.
I think the problem is that social media has been used for great evil so an attempt to curb that is good.
At least it’s a democratic body. Way better than Musk being in capricious control of deleting speech rights.
Cant less democratic regimes do that anyway?
It’s targetting only the biggest platforms and there is nothing in EU taking control.
