cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12896912
As the EU’s new flagship tech laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, are coming into full application, Big Tech is working hard to shoot them down. As of today, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) becomes fully applicable, following its counterpart the Digital Services Act (DSA) on 17 February.
However, as the EU’s new tech laws are coming into full application, tech corporations like Apple, Amazon, Meta and TikTok are already undermining them at every turn. To subvert these new regulations, tech corporations have filed a number of lawsuits against the European Commission and attempted to weaken the rules with malicious compliance that protects their profits at the expense of their users.
The EU better start dropping the hammer or this pathetic cat and mouse game of malicious compliance will continue.
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Don’t be part of the problem.Show up to the polls and vote for parties that wants to reign these criminals in.
And pray that the candidates elected on those platforms don’t backtrack for the lobby of big-whatever.
There’s only so much you can do in a representative democracy. A liquid/delegative democracy could be better, but until then, we use the tools we are given.
How about demanding better tools?
Can a democracy that doesn’t reflect and can’t act systematically for the needs of the people really be called a democracy?
What good are demands if there’s no power behind the demands. I can demand you stop using the internet, but I have no way to enforce it.
We do need better tools, but we need to agree upon what those tools are.
Can a democracy that doesn’t reflect and can’t act systematically for the needs of the people really be called a democracy?
Of course it can. Just because you don’t like the way a system is run doesn’t mean it isn’t what it is. There many forms of democracy (delegative, representative, direct, and all their subforms constitutional monarchy, parliamentary, …).
Which democracy is the best for the people is of course very debatable. A direct democracy wouldn’t make sense in a country with a small elite and large uneducated population for example. The elite could easily influence the rest of the population in many ways: political messages, paid mercenaries, bad worker laws that make it impossible to have time to vote, flooding the system with calls for votes, proposing changes that are bad for the population but incomprehensible to them, …
It’s not easy.
Let them try. They can probably delay it for maybe a year, but they absolutely will get fined 10% of global revenue.
Would also be nice if some of them started to suck so much on purpose, that other tech companies would gain traction.
Not so sure, to be fair Apple is in compliance with everything right now :)
What Apple did isn’t illegal as per DMA, they carefully studied the requirements and made sure they were in compliance without losing control. There’s no law breaking here, there’s simply a poorly written DMA. Now the right question to ask is: was the DMA poorly written by mistake or… did Apple and others made sure it was written the way it is?
