Open Letter Urges EU to Not Be Bullied By Trump and His Tech Bros on Cyber Issues
Quoting: Open Letter Urges EU to Not Be Bullied By Trump and His Tech Bros on Cyber Issues - FOSS Force —
European Digital Rights — or EDRi — a Brussels-based activist group that calls itself “the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online” has put together an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, which is the primary executive arm of the European Union. The letter urges her to not let Trump and the tech bros who have adopted him (my description, not theirs) bully the EU into not enforcing its Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.
Lumping the two acts together isn’t unusual in the world of EU digital politics. Both were introduced to the European Parliament at the same time, and both were adopted in 2022. The DSA is primarily meant to “govern the content moderation practices of social media platforms” and address illegal content, while the DMA is something of a European anti-trust law, tasked with promoting digital competition by preventing large companies from abusing monopoly power, and by paving the road for new players to enter the market.