Meeting of the European Digital Services Committee in Brussels: the need for regulation is reaffirmed
The Digital ServicesAct regulation makes digital players more accountable by requiring them to deploy concrete measures to build a safer, more transparent internet that respects everyone's freedoms.
Since August 2023, this European regulation has applied to very large platforms and search engines and, since one year ago, to all intermediary services[1], which are subject to obligations adapted to their size and activity.
To mark the first anniversary of the full application of the regulation, the European Digital Services Committee met yesterday in Brussels in the presence of Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy.
The meeting was an opportunity for Arcom (represented by its president Martin Ajdari) and all its European counterparts to take stock of the text's promising implementation, to anticipate tomorrow's systemic risks, and to reaffirm the importance of collective digital regulation on a European scale.
At a time when the very value of regulating digital services is being called into question, Arcom reaffirms its commitment to contributing to the success of a scheme that protects freedom of expression and strengthens the transparency of online platforms, while responding to the risks raised in terms of public protection (attacks on human dignity, harassment, specific risks for persons under 18, online hate, discriminatory bias, etc.) and the stability of our democratic societies (disinformation, operations to destabilize elections, etc.).
[1] Platforms with fewer than 45 million users in Europe.
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