Administered by:
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft
These are the first 6 companies designated as ‘gatekeepers' under the Digital Markets Act.
They have 6 months to ensure their core platform services comply with our rules, including:
Allowing users to unsubscribe and remove pre-installed services Allowing the download of alternative app stores
Banning tracking outside of their services without consent Stopping ranking their products more favourably
@kkarhan@mstdn.social@EU_Commission since the penalty for said #offenses is only a #fine they'll rather pay you than comply.
Espechally since said fines are laughably low!
... fines up to 10% of the company's total worldwide turnover, which can go up to 20% in case of repeated infringement.
Do you really call that "laughably low"?
@hans I'd call it that way until it's being enforced.
Otherwise that's just a hypothetical.
Not to mention I doubt @EU_Commission will actually be able to forfeilture said amounts and I'm convinced the U.S. government won't assist in that matter as it goes against it's hegemonial interests...
It's like with International Law: Otherwise we'd have seen the Bush's, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Kissinger on trial at the ICC.
