Judd LegumDec 18, 2022

IMPORTANT: @[email protected]'s new policy preventing linking to competitors is in DIRECT VIOLATION of European Union rules.

Penalty can be a fine of up to 20% of Twitter's annual revenue

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-markets-act-ensuring-fair-and-open-digital-markets_en#what-will-be-the-consequences-of-non-compliance

The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital markets

Discover how the Digital Markets Act ensures large online platforms in the EU behave fairly, and allows new players to enter the market, thus developing a fast evolving digital sector.

European Commission
Show threadKarynDocDec 18, 2022

@juddlegum

The big question: will he be? Or will, yet again, the rich folks get to live by different rules than the rest of us?

Show threadRaccoon on the InternetDec 18, 2022
@KarynDoc @juddlegum EU internet regulation is no joke. Meta was recently fined €265m for failing to prevent data scraping. they take enforcement of tech regulations very seriously over there.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/e265-million-gdpr-fine-for-meta-over-data-scraping-conducted-prior-to-2020/amp/
€265 Million GDPR Fine for Meta Over Data Scraping Conducted Prior to 2020

The GDPR fine was sparked by a round of media reports in early 2021 documenting how the personal data of over 530 million Facebook users was left open to data scraping for an extended period thanks to faults in certain tools.

CPO Magazine
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@racoonlatrine @juddlegum

I sincerely hope so. Just feeling a bit burned thus far.

Dec 18, 2022 at 8:41pmWeb