EU’s Digital Services Act Stumbles Out Of The Gate As Member States Fail To Appoint Regulators
from the compliance-is-for-others dept
The EU’s much-touted Digital Services Act, hailed as the gold standard for whipping those unruly internet platforms into shape, has hit an embarrassing snag. Apparently, the EU forgot to cc a few member states on the ‘Pretty Please Appoint a DSA Regulator’ memo.
The internet sites under the thumb of the DSA aren’t allowed to miss deadlines without facing serious consequences. But, apparently, there’s a bit of a double standard over in the EU, as eight EU countries still haven’t appointed their required DSA regulator yet, well after the law was already supposedly in effect.
Eight EU member states have not yet formally appointed a national regulator tasked with enforcing the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Commission said today (20 March).
And that’s kind of a big deal, because the companies are required to work with those regulators in order to comply with these new rules:
Digital Services Coordinators, intended to be online platforms’ main point of contact in helping the commission with collecting evidence on implementation of the platform rules, were meant to be designated by 17 February.
The commission handles enforcement of the 22 largest platforms or VLOPs including YouTube, Booking.com and Facebook, but for the smaller platforms it’s the national authorities that check compliance.
I know that people who think the EU can do no wrong get on my case every time I point out some of the failings of EU regulations. But I remain stunned that they can set up these big, important, strict rules, insist that companies must follow them or else… and then leave the main “point of contact” for most companies empty in a variety of countries, including Poland, which has a bunch of internet companies impacted by the DSA.
It makes it difficult to take seriously if the EU countries themselves aren’t taking it seriously. It also seems to reinforce the idea that the EU really only cares about regulating the big American companies, for all the talk of how the DSA was meant to regulate all internet companies. The process necessary to regulate the smaller, local companies is a clear afterthought and not considered at all important.
Maybe the EU needs to threaten its own member countries with billion-euro fines until it gets its act together? Or perhaps it could appoint a Special Commissioner for Hiring Our Missing Regulators. Until then, the DSA’s bold promises risk being lost in the EU-style bureaucratic bluster, with the customary EU-style lack of follow-through.
Filed Under: compliance, country regulators, dsa, eu, poland
Comments on “EU’s Digital Services Act Stumbles Out Of The Gate As Member States Fail To Appoint Regulators”
The EU should charge those companies 6% of their annual turnover in penalties.
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Penalties for what?
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Internet user read the article challenge
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Darn it, I meant to say “countries”, not “companies”. Stupid fingers.
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You probably were right the first time:
Companies fail to meet targets, get a 6% fine.
Countries fail to meet their targets, not their fault.
But fine the companies 6% as they are not following the rules and engaging with the regulators (who don’t exist).
You missed an opportunity for Hiring Our Missing European Regulators.
Maybe, it’s for the best, fewer nannies complaining about silly things which no one would care about in the U.S.
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I’m honestly not convinced those billion-euro fines are doing much good. It does set a very strong precedent around certain behaviors by companies, but what I see as a red-blooded American citizen is:
giant company does awful shit -> EU notices and sends them a 200000 billion euro fine -> it makes the news -> EU regulators talk about how great they are -> nothing happens
Maybe it’s different in Europe where they have privacy laws worth a damn, but even there the general sentiment seems to be that nothing has changed.
It was admittedly pretty obvious from the word ‘go’ that the DSA was Breton’s personal bludgeoning tool rather than meaningful legislature. This sort of thing only emphasises that.
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As an American born citizen whose NDAA and PPT have financed these internet companies, it would be my preference to just kick the EU off the internet entirely. They are just royal pains in the ass. Why in the hell should we have to store all of their data and waste the resources to do it in exchange for them controlling a narrative that is anti-American and unconstitutional? What kind of fucking idiots are allowing them to do this? The EU is just a useless burdensome destructive, parasitic liability that America can no longer afford to associate with, after helping them in two world wars, it is just one God damned fucking fiasco and scheme after another with them!
What do we get in return for it? Their shit and piss for fertilizer! It is the only thing that they are cabable of producing, in addition to regulation! Who in the hell needs the useless fucking degenerates?!
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The EU was established after WWII.
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No shit sherlock, but it is the countries that are in it, and it is primarily controlled by Germany to the detriment of other European countries. The stupid Euroeans keep taking the bait from the Germans. They created the EU and Euro to retaliate against America for both world wars. But most of the countries in it, not Italy of course on Germany’s side, Americans defended with our blood, and to our own detriment.
Cooperation is nit the objective of the EU, domination always has been and remains their primary objective. They believe that it is theor birth rigjht.
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They even started Pizzagate!
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How do you figure?
You just said the US helped Europe through two world wars. Why would they retaliate against them for that, and how does creating a union and a currency do that?
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Your grasp of history only makes sense for someone who’s under ~14.
This is why we need age verification online.
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Many of them, sure, but not all. Switzerland was neutral in both, however, and it’s in the EU; meanwhile, the UK, Russia, Japan, China, Canada, Australia, India, and others were also involved in one or both World Wars to a significant extent, and none of them are in the EU. (Granted, the UK used to be, but it was always an arms-length relationship for them.) There’s also Spain, which was involved in WW1 but not WW2.
I’m not sure that it is, actually. Germany has actually opposed some EU regulations that were still passed, even, so that seems unlikely to be true. Do you have evidence for your assertions?
First, this conflicts with your allegation that we went in those wars to help Europe. Given that (and all the help we gave them during the Cold War), why would those wars lead them to want to retaliate against us?
Second, how is either creating a currency and an economic union even remotely detrimental for America? How would either of those serve as retribution against us in the first place?
Third, again, do you have any evidence for your claims?
Fourth, the Germany that is in the EU is very different from Nazi Germany or Wilhelm’s Germany. Especially given our assistance during the Cold War, there is very little from the two World Wars that Germans or the current German government holds a grudge against the US for. In fact, we’re on pretty good terms with all the Axis Powers in WW2.
Given all that, I’m not convinced that Germany even had the motives you claim, let alone the dominant forces in the EU.
Italy was on the same side as America in WW1, America’s participation in those wars ultimately led to America being seen as a global superpower for many decades up til now, and WW2 helped to end the Great Depression. There were also several EU members who fought on the same side as Germany (besides Germany itself of course) in WW1 or WW2.
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What ended up morphing into the EU was started by Britain, and it rather successfully met its core objectives of not having more European wars and a common market in which European countries could participate.
None of your claims make any sense; neither the supposed principles, nor the actions and effects.
Thanks for playing.
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More examples of EU double standards, burdensome, anti-American regulation includes things like demanding that if Tesla wants to sell cars in Europe, that they open up factories in Europe, but Volvo, Mercedes, Betley, Volkswagon, and other European manufacturers do not want to produce cars that they sell to Americans in America, and insisting that Amazon unionize in Europe. They think that it is American tax payers duty to provide them with jobs.
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Citation needed.
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I am not your slave. Look it up. Do you know how to do an ingernet search? If you need assistance, go to the library and ask a salaried librarian to help you.
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I just did this and the librarian had never heard of an ingernet.
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You made the claim, you provide the evidence. If you’re not willing to do that, don’t make the claim in the first place.
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You’re the one making the claim here. If you want others to believe you, it’s on you to provide the evidence that supports your claim. It’s not our job to prove your claim.
Also, learn to spell Internet before insulting others.
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i don’t even know what an ingernet search is. Is this some sort of AS owned by someone named Inger?
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My guess is that you must not be a person. You mist be a chatbot. If you were a person, you would not ask me that.
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“Only computers are skeptical of my claims.”
What a weird comment.
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In your own words, eat your own words! Loser!
“You made the claim, you provide the evidence. If you’re not willing to do that, don’t make the claim in the first place.”
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What claim have I made that requires evidence?
And I noticed you have yet to back up your earlier claim.
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Oooh lookie here, more troll food for the hyper-argumentative types who just love to do his bidding and breathe life into him.
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What was the claim? He stated his opinion about your comment; that’s not a claim.
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Oh look. The douchebag is anti-union. Who would have guessed?
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OP has failed to provide evidence supporting their conclusions. OP is granted leave to amend their complaint with evidence supporting the plausibility of their claims.
Of note are the following claims:
Claims that the actions of individual countries are the actions of the EU.
Claims that the EU forced Tesla to build a local factory before selling to EU countries.
Claims that, when choosing to increase limited output by building new factories, placing factories in the largest untapped markets was not the superior fiscal option rather than place another factory in the US.
Claims that Volvo does not manufacture the S60 in the US.
Claims that Mexico is not “America”.
Claims that US manufacturers building American market cars in Mexico is fundamentally different than EU manufacturers building in Mexico.
Claims that Amazon is an arm of the US government and its EU hires are US government employees paid by the US taxpayer.
Claims Amazon is immune to local labor laws.
Claims Amazon is immune to Local Union laws.
Claims the EU dicates the practices of European Car Manufacturers.
Re: Tesla in EU
Maybe look at the requirements and regulations FIRST.
As Shipping cars over the Ocean that weight 5-6 TONS isnt cheap. Esp. as the USA love to Charge USA prices on everything.
Does this mean
That ALL the internet sites will Run to those countries so they ARNT covered/regulated?
MORE PORN?