EU’s new rules for tech giants are about to kick in: All you need to know

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.org – 89 points –
EU’s new rules for tech giants are about to kick in: All you need to know
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The EU giveth (removable batteries, mandated USB-C) and it taketh away

violations could bring fines worth up to 6 percent of their global revenue – which could amount to billions – or even a ban from the EU.

Not too shabby! Seems like the laws at least have some teeth.

So it's the "We can take down what we don't like"-Act

Oh God no, the horror that the EU could remove content that promotes hatred!

The problem is usually in the broadness of the definition. Less democratic regimes can easily use this to forbid material about opposing views and parties. Double-edged sword.

I think the problem is that social media has been used for great evil so an attempt to curb that is good.

At least it's a democratic body. Way better than Musk being in capricious control of deleting speech rights.

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