Proton CTO Bart Butler urges the 🇬🇧 UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late'
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Developers fighting self-serving restrictions imposed on the web by tech giants. Help us end the #AppleBrowserBan & make web apps 1st-class citizens everywhere.
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📖Read our full analysis:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/open-letter--why-the-cma-must-enforce-the-dmcca/
📖Read our full analysis:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/open-letter--why-the-cma-must-enforce-the-dmcca/
This is exactly why the CMA must use its DMCCA’s powers decisively. Browsers, browser engines, web apps, search, app stores, developers, businesses, and users all depend on genuine competition.
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Butler went on explaining that, without robust competition rules, these companies will "continue to stifle innovation, limit consumer choice, and create barriers for businesses across the UK’s digital economy."
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"It’s now widely understood that Apple and Google wield extraordinary power over the online economy," Butler stated following his BBC appearance, deeming legislation, like the DMCCA in the UK and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe, as essential."
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"However, critics argue that regulators are moving too slowly, allowing dominant platforms to entrench their monopolies across mobile browsers, search engines, and app stores."
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"Passed with overwhelming cross-party support, the DMCCA was designed to break the stranglehold that a small number of tech giants have over the UK’s digital economy."
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Any successful solution to allow browsers to use their own engines in the EU is highly likely to become global. Multiple regulators and government organizations have recommended ending Apple's ban on third-party browsers including in the UK, Japan, USA and Australia.
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However, Apple’s browser engine ban still needs investigation.
Without a specification proceeding by the European Commission, Apple can continue to deny meaningful browser and web app competition on iOS while claiming compliance with the DMA.
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https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/
Most recently, iOS 27 is reportedly set to offer native integration with Google Cast and other streaming protocols. However this functionality will reportedly be withheld from non-EU consumers.
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