@jonben @EUCommission

Do you know how a fine works? Tiktok has to PAY US up to 6%, not the other way around lol

Jokes aside, it deserves a ban, but Gen Alpha would riot

Hello @hans! First, TikTok now as the right to a written defence. After this, if a breach of the DSA is established, a fine can indeed be a consequence.
In a recent example, the company X was fined €120 million for breaching transparency obligations, including deceptive design practices and lack of transparency in its advertising repository.
You can learn more about how enforcement proceedings work here: https://link.europa.eu/3kC9Vg

@sam @EUCommission @ikuturso
If it were clear to the userbase that they were on different instances, maybe

Threads does federate with other ActivityPub services afaik. I followed some Threads accounts when it first opened. It's just de-facto unfederated now cause many large non-corporate instances have since blocked them. I understand why. Meta has unceremoniously scrapped open protocols before (Facebook messenger had XMPP when it first started). So their commitment is unreliable at best.

@EUCommission Thanks for the reaction ️

The €120 million for X doesn't mean a lot, that doesn't hurt. Small price to pay for spreading desinformation and influencing European elections. Eloon would pay that with a big smile on his face.

A fine of 6% of the annual global revenue would hurt, that's the type of fine that sends the message "we're serious".

@EUCommission keep it up! Rule of law is what I'm here for

But please do not make client side scanning in any way part of that law. It is so dangerous! Imagine an autocracy had that kind of access to its citizens' data and thought.

@energisch_ @EUCommission

I'm for 100%, considering how long these companies have been disrupting democracy on purpose.

@EUCommission STOP THE CENSORSHIP AND THE SPYING ON US

@EUCommission So all social media, including Mastodon, should be banned too?

@RazvanNicolescu02@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu https://break3.social/notes/aiejgddc9ljk0tao

@quincy
I second that.
@energisch_ @EUCommission

@EUCommission Errr... Mastodon has infinite scroll!

@EUCommission right move, only first three listed aspects are misleading, because practically every application with a news feed does the same thing. The recommender system and ignoring the parental controls on the other hand are plausible.

@EUCommission I preliminary found that the European Commission is focussing to much on petty issues instead of focussing on:

* A coherent energy & grid strategy
* The demographic collapse & lack of labor mobility
* A truly unified European capital market
* The erosion of democratic legitimacy through the judicial expansion.

The European Commission can now excercise its right to reply to me.

@EUCommission Based on those wordings, I don't see the difference to Instagram, Facebook or Snap.

@EUCommission Those same indicators of addictive design are present when it comes to Youtube, Facebook and Insta as well. Why aren't fines being issued in that case? Just so you don't anger Trump? The DSA should be applied to every platform, american ones are not an exception!!

@EUCommission other platforms are same. reddit,instagram,x all are designned to keep user as long as possible

@EUCommission preliminarily*
Anyway wonderful news!

@RazvanNicolescu02 @EUCommission Mastodon does not use an algoritmic timeline, nor does it optimize for keeping people hooked to the screen as long as possible. Big difference.

@EUCommission
#Mastodon also has those design features!

@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.