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The most telling feature of the DMA is that it doesn't include Spotify. Spotify would not be compliant under the DMA for the same reason why the EU has charged

by quitit 2y ago

The most telling feature of the DMA is that it doesn't include Spotify. Spotify would not be compliant under the DMA for the same reason why the EU has charged Meta with non-compliance: >Under Article 5(2) of the DMA, gatekeepers must seek users’ consent for combining their personal data between designated core platform services and other services, and if a user refuses such consent, they should have access to a less personalised but equivalent alternative. Gatekeepers cannot make use of the service or certain functionalities conditional on users’ consent. - Source: EC statement¹ However the EU doesn't deem there to be any gatekeepers for music.² YouTube has over 80 million music subscribers. To avoid this obvious conflict they label "YouTube" as a video sharing site, deliberately ignoring one of the largest drivers of youtube traffic is music videos. Something which Google themselves advertise.³ If the EU cared about privacy and user harm they'd make the DMA protections apply to every business, not just big foreign ones. Spotify's ads website actually brags about how it targets and tracks users and the various 3rd party data companies they partner with to extend that beyond Spotify.⁴ It's clear as day that the EU doesn't care about user harm or privacy, they just want that money for themselves. A view that is buttressed by what they're trying to do to encrypted chat communications. ¹ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_3582 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_... ² https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en ³ https://www.youtube.com/trends/records/ https://www.youtube.com/trends/records/ ⁴ https://ads.spotify.com/en-US/goals/audience-targeting/ https://ads.spotify.com/en-US/goals/audience-targeting/ https://ads.spotify.com/en-US/partner-directory/ https://ads.spotify.com/en-US/partner-directory/

aurareturn 2y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that EU regulations target big foreign companies while ignoring big domestic ones? If they truly cared about monopolies/duopolies, they'd target LVMH, Luxottica.
- quitit 2y ago
  I note this because they're constantly lying that their goals are for the protection of users, when their actions send a different message. Here's the direct Twitter quote from Thierry Breton regarding the charge against Meta: The #DMA is here to give back users the power to decide over their #data #Meta has forced millions of users across EU into a binary choice : “pay or consent”. In our preliminary conclusion this is a breach of the DMA. Today we take an important step to ensure Meta complies. https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1807715743129043342 https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1807715743129043342 Meanwhile Spotify, all data brokers and any other non-DMA'd companies can take and exchange private user data. I believe the rule should apply to all companies because I don't see the point of "protecting" users from a handful of companies when that is a drop in the ocean of data collectors. He also makes strange bed fellows, such as frequently advocating for Fortnite, the game title which the FTC found to be deliberately tricking children into unwanted purchases, then killing their Fornite accounts in retaliation should they obtain a refund.¹ https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464 https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464 ¹ https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/ftc-finalizes-order-requiring-fortnite-maker-epic-games-pay-245-million-tricking-users-making https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/... Note this fine is finalised because Epic didn't challenge the FTC's claims.

by quitit 2y ago

aurareturn 2y ago

I thought it was common knowledge that EU regulations target big foreign companies while ignoring big domestic ones? If they truly cared about monopolies/duopolies, they'd target LVMH, Luxottica.

quitit 2y ago
I note this because they're constantly lying that their goals are for the protection of users, when their actions send a different message. Here's the direct Twitter quote from Thierry Breton regarding the charge against Meta: The #DMA is here to give back users the power to decide over their #data #Meta has forced millions of users across EU into a binary choice : “pay or consent”. In our preliminary conclusion this is a breach of the DMA. Today we take an important step to ensure Meta complies. https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1807715743129043342 https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1807715743129043342 Meanwhile Spotify, all data brokers and any other non-DMA'd companies can take and exchange private user data. I believe the rule should apply to all companies because I don't see the point of "protecting" users from a handful of companies when that is a drop in the ocean of data collectors. He also makes strange bed fellows, such as frequently advocating for Fortnite, the game title which the FTC found to be deliberately tricking children into unwanted purchases, then killing their Fornite accounts in retaliation should they obtain a refund.¹ https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464 https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464 ¹ https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/ftc-finalizes-order-requiring-fortnite-maker-epic-games-pay-245-million-tricking-users-making https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/... Note this fine is finalised because Epic didn't challenge the FTC's claims.