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lol. Facebook's "pay or consent" model does not comply with the Digital Markets Act (ec.europa.eu)

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[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They didn't need to put this in, but they did;

In case of non-compliance, the Commission can impose fines up to 10% of the gatekeeper's total worldwide turnover. Such fines can go up to 20% in case of repeated infringement. Moreover, in case of systematic non-compliance, the Commission is also empowered to adopt additional remedies such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell a business or parts of it or banning the gatekeeper from acquisitions of additional services related to the systemic non-compliance.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

pretty common to see that mentioned ito EU going after megacorps; the tone was set by microsoft actions in the 00s (the Office saga), and has rung a few times since over the years