Today we are proposing a set of new rules for all digital services: the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act.
We want to make sure users have access to a wide choice of safe products and services online, and that businesses compete fairly and freely.
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1338870807561461762
Incredible news from the EU: mandating open interoperability for communication silos, or face a 10%(!!!) fine of worldwide turnover. @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] - you know where to find us... :) 🙋🏼♀️
Lots of folks are asking for the source: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2347 has the details. "Require gatekeepers to proactively put in place certain measures, such as targeted measures allowing the software of third parties to properly function and interoperate with their own services;"
@matrix that sounds more like prohibition of prohibition of third party clients or something similar, although the wording is vague.