Opinion: 'Faced with Musk and Zuckerberg's refusal to comply with European legislation, the Commission seems to be responding with... less regulation'

c/europe · u/misk@sopuli.xyz · 157 points

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.10-105556/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/03/10/faced-with-musk-and-zuckerberg-s-refusal-to-comply-with-european-legislation-the-commission-seems-to-be-responding-with-less-regulation_6738994_23.html

Digital deregulation is only the visible part of a much larger problem: attacks on European state power, warn academics Lola Avril and Céleste Bonnamy in an op-ed.

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u/jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 14 points

Fuck them even harder. If the EU won't do it, nobody will.

u/boreengreen@lemm.ee · 10 points

Make the fine proportional to the companies size.

u/federalreverse@feddit.org · 5 points

What if the company is huge, you depend on it heavily, and it also has the explicit support of a powerful, belligerent nation?

u/misk@sopuli.xyz · 6 points

Draghi report was quite surprising to Eastern Europe in general since many of the stats presented didn’t include Eastern Europe at all, which is quite deregulated already. Can’t wait for our politicians to enact deregulatory Mad Max.

u/XenGi@feddit.org · 73 points

If American companies don't want to comply with EU law they should look for other markets. I can perfectly live without meta and x.

u/vesi@lemm.ee · 32 points

I hate it when THEY bend OUR knees.

u/boreengreen@lemm.ee · 26 points

If a company refuses to follow the law, then fine them every day, perpetually. With increasing severity.

u/gil2455526@lemmy.eco.br · 14 points

You know it's bad when Brazil forces companies to comply better than you.

u/thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 10 points

Not surprising. Deregulation is an important part of the Draghi report that aims to make Europe more competitive and is the spine of the current Commission’s agenda.

u/doodledup@lemmy.world · 2 points

https://archive.ph/EzMty