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Tech industry's standard playbook for subverting the DSA/DMA and maximizing their profits through wildly inappropriate checks and balances within their own plat
by benoau 5mo ago
Tech industry's standard playbook for subverting the DSA/DMA and maximizing their profits through wildly inappropriate checks and balances within their own platforms.
> In theory, the system gives EU users a free way to challenge moderation decisions through an independent review body. In practice, Appeals Centre Europe says platforms often fail to hand over the disputed content or account material needed to review cases.
> Account bans appear to be where the process really starts to fall apart. Appeals Centre Europe says that despite receiving more than 14,000 suspension disputes, it got enough content from platforms to fully review fewer than 150 cases.
> However, the report also suggests platforms do not always implement the Appeals Centre's decisions even after cases are reviewed. In one section covering disputes submitted by civil society groups, the organization says it is aware of only "a handful" of cases in which platforms acted on its rulings, while many disputed posts remained online.
Start fining them or better yet locking up their executives.
- ben_w 5mo ago> Start fining them or better yet locking up their executives. Some European court locking them up those executives would be tricky, give the executives are in the USA and are donors to the US government. But yes, fines. Unlike some here, I don't think the fine for one single offence needs to be a double-digit percentage of their revenue, on the grounds that they're committing so many different offences in so many different jurisdictions that it's going to add up to more than something they can dismiss as a cost of business.