_EU Tech Laws Erect Digital Iron Curtain_
FTA: ver the past decades, Europe has created little of real relevance in terms of technological platforms, social networks, operating systems, or search engines. In contrast, it has built an extensive regulatory apparatus designed to limit and punish those who have actually innovated.
Rather than producing its own alternatives to American tech giants, the EU has chosen to suffocate existing ones through regulations such as the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
The DSA aims to control the content and internal functioning of digital platforms, requiring the rapid removal of content deemed “inappropriate” in what amounts to a modern form of censorship, as well as the disclosure of how algorithms work and restrictions on targeted advertising. The DMA, in turn, seeks to curtail the power of so-called gatekeepers by forcing companies like Apple, Google, or Meta to open their systems to competitors, avoid self-preferencing, and separate data flows between products.
These two regulations could potentially have a greater impact on U.S. tech companies than any domestic legislation, as they are rules made in Brussels but applied to American companies in an extraterritorial manner. And they go far beyond fines: they force structural changes to the design of systems and functionalities, something that no sovereign state should be imposing on foreign private enterprise.
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/eu-tech-laws-erect-digital-iron-curtain/
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