@EUCommission, financial fines are not enough. If a company is allowed to still operate in EU while just paying fines and being sued, it may just accept it as a business cost.

Instead, when company fails to comply with our laws, it must stop operations in EU. They have chance to comply, even several. If they are not capable of using them, they are threat to Europe and must be dealt as such.

@hyevans @EUCommission …and Alphabet. And Amazon. And Microslop. And OpenAI.

@albertcardona @EUCommission What part of addictive and manipulative flew past you? That’s what it does, capturing attention.

@hyevans @EUCommission Did anyone ever think differently? The Ellisons and the rest of the oligarchs are all about propaganda!

@EUCommission

ban Insta, TikTok and Youtube Shorts.

I can't come up with any good reasons we should let a foreign company have this level of control of europeans minds, specially youth.

And it's not about "free speech", this we get with a mastodon for example.

This is about giving the power to direct attention to whatever a foreign entity wants and thus control of public opinion.

@EUCommission @stux, well, when I check, even #Loops have infinite scroll and autoplay As a free software and decentralized application, still better than TikTok, but done similar issues are there also

@js @EUCommission

Preventing addiction requires continuous human contact – which was absent. The path to recovery from addiction requires continuous human contact – which is unclear where it will come from.

@EUCommission Leibe EU Kommision. Könnt ihr bitte was dagegen unternehmen das die Wirtschaft Druck auf die Politik ausüben. So was tut man nicht, das ist Nötigung .

@sloanlance @EUCommission

Autoplay? Where? Also there is no algorithm on mastodon. You are expected to curate your own experience.

@albertcardona @EUCommission We can still look up from our broken screens and find there’s a world out there, with people in it.

Having that epiphany would not be the apocalypse it is made out to be.

@EUCommission

Simply excellent conclusion… rolling out these sociological experiments untested for profit should simply be stopped. Rules and regulations is what we need.

@EUCommission @hans 120 million for Twitter is like 10 cents for anyone in these comments. Fines for violations like these should come in entire pieces of yearly profits

@energisch_ @EUCommission Not sure if its the DSA, but one or more of these EU laws gets more and more severe over time. If they don’t improve they’ll be investigated again and fined again, but with a higher amount.

@EUCommission I applaud further scrutiny of TikTok, but the basis is iffy. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local also implements infinite scroll

@EUCommission dont forget about #youtube Shorts and #instagram Reels…

@EUCommission No shit. This has always been the plan for short-form video, as well as the shift with Social Media sites since '15. They are designed to addict, unlike the earlier forms, where you just had a profile and used it as a messaging service.

@EUCommission YouTube Shorts shpuld be the next target.

I hate opening one interesting short video, ended wasting 30 minutes of mindless scrolling.

@EUCommission
Very good to see our EU taking action! Glad to be part of it.

@EUCommission
A giant leap for the EU, one small step for mankind.

Vs the original.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" by Niel Armstrong.

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