"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."

https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/

#EU #TechPolicy #DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust

"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."

https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/

#EU #TechPolicy #DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands to boycott European singing contest due to Israel's participation despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.

#Europe #Gaza #Occupation #War #Entertainment #EuroVision #Spain #Slovenia #Ireland #Netherlands #EU #Competition #Singing

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/04/ireland-spain-and-the-netherlands-to-boycott-eurovision-2026-as-israel-cleared-to-compete

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands to boycott European singing contest due to Israel's participation despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.

#Europe #Gaza #Occupation #War #Entertainment #EuroVision #Spain #Slovenia #Ireland #Netherlands #EU #Competition #Singing

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/04/ireland-spain-and-the-netherlands-to-boycott-eurovision-2026-as-israel-cleared-to-compete

Why exactly can I still not uninstall #Microsoft effing #Edge on a fully patched #Windows11 in the EU?

#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust #DigitalRights #SoftwareFreedom #DMA

Why exactly can I still not uninstall #Microsoft effing #Edge on a fully patched #Windows11 in the EU?

#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #antitrust #DigitalRights #SoftwareFreedom #DMA

🛑 TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 70+ leading consumer and digital rights groups from the United States and Europe, is deeply concerned about the European Commission’s upcoming “Digital Omnibus Package.” What is billed as a technical effort to “simplify” digital rules risks dismantling the very protections that make Europe’s digital framework a global model, with repercussions at a global scale. https://tacd.org/streamlining-or-deregulation-tacd-sounds-alarm-on-eu-digital-omnibus/
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#GDPR #privacy #AI #competition

🛑 TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a coalition of 70+ leading consumer and digital rights groups from the United States and Europe, is deeply concerned about the European Commission’s upcoming “Digital Omnibus Package.” What is billed as a technical effort to “simplify” digital rules risks dismantling the very protections that make Europe’s digital framework a global model, with repercussions at a global scale. https://tacd.org/streamlining-or-deregulation-tacd-sounds-alarm-on-eu-digital-omnibus/
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#GDPR #privacy #AI #competition

Good morning Fediverse's EU tech policy nerds!

Up today: the @EUCommission's #DMA workshop with #gatekeeper#Microsoft.

(Sorry #NGIForum25 two floors below, no time for you today 😌)

We haven't started yet and the room is still empty, but I'm hoping we'll discuss how #Windows is abused to dominate other markets, by aggressively nudging users to #Edge, #Xbox, #OneDrive, #ChatGPT, etc.

#DigitalMarketsAct#competition #antitrust#monopolies