Thread by @VanberghenEU

Celebrating now the end of wild west on #Internet with a glass of tea! #Europe is designing its digital future & need sharp teeth to its new powers! #Platforms will operate in a legal framework that until now was nonexistent #DSA #DMA 🎊 @EU_Commission @Europarl_EN #Mythread 1/1

No more domination of technological giants in 🇪🇺 VP @vestager said #DSA #DMA are basic pillars of the efforts to impose stricter rules on #usedandabused technology groups& establish regulations suitable for #Internet era. 1/2

#Democracy now sets the rules for #digital world, rather than the tech giants. #DSA #DMA. #Vestager 1/3

Large #technology companies will have to operate more transparently, companies will be forced to be transparent about the #algorithms they use. 1/4

#EU is taking political action in order to regulate #tech giants, but social media platforms also carry a responsibility to cooperate with the authorities, and should not counteract regulation efforts. #DSA #DMA  1/5

With this "innovative legislation" #Europe can inspire other countries, including #US.  #DSA and #DMA will have a profound global impact, as the rest of the world is expected to use it as a model for its own regulation (as it was the case for #GDPR privacy legislation). 1/6

#EU is "the first in the world to set a standard for regulating the #digital space" said @ThierryBreton! 1/7

Plenty of #enforcement challenges! It will be the first time @EU_Commission will directly implement #internalmarket legislation that has, until now, been delegated to national authorities. @DigitalEU #Vestager 1/8

@EU_Commission will have to fight against experienced & expensive lawyers defending tech giants like #Apple. #DMA @Andreas_Schwab:“we need lawyers & economists but we also need data specialists & people that can analyse algorithms, but it will not be easy...” 1/9

#DSA stipulates the appointment of a #Digital Services Coordinator in each #EU member state, and to ensure coordination of supervision at national level, and to contribute to the effective and consistent application and enforcement of the law across the EU. 1/10

In many #EU countries the debate on which authority should be entrusted with this task has already started. For example, the issue is sensitive in #Germany as the powers to regulate #digital services are distributed among various authorities at federal and state level. #DSA 1/11

Some #NGOs warn the planned measures to curb #hatespeech could also have negative effects, pointing to the lack of mechanisms to protect #FreedomOfExpression. Just finished my tea! END

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