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Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers (ec.europa.eu)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft - under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In total, 22 core platform services provided by gatekeepers have been designated. The six gatekeepers will now have six months to ensure full compliance with the DMA obligations for each of their designated core platform services.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Example of the “don'ts” - Gatekeeper platforms may no longer:

prevent users from un-installing any pre-installed software or app if they wish so

Good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Full list of gatekeepers' core platform services that must comply with the Digital Markets Act:

Social Networks: TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn
N-IICS (aka messaging services): WhatsApp, Messenger
Intermediation: Google Maps, Google Play, Google Shopping, Amazon Marketplace, Apple’s App Store, Meta Marketplace
Video Sharing: YouTube
Advertising services: Google, Amazon, Meta
Web Browsers: Chrome, Safari
Search: Google Search
Operating Systems: Android, iOS, Windows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about iMessage? Last i heard they petitioned against it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's still under evaluation, so it might be added later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

TikTok is truly a gatekeeper service on par with Facebook and Google. Whatever will people do without their tiktokthots?