Today, IMCO has approved its report on the DMA. The DMA regulates gatekeepers’ behaviour and their impact on market dynamics. The DMA, together with the much broader Digital Services Act (DSA), has the potential to reign in the ever expanding monopolistic nature of Big Tech corporations whose powers have infiltrated every aspect of our life, from education and healthcare to healthy debate and democratic elections.
EDRi welcomes the Committee’s commitment to fair and competitive digital markets and recognises the EU’s desire to limit the power that digital gatekeepers have over people’s lives and the markets they dominate. Currently, gatekeepers are so market dominant that they dictate rules and practices that affect, among other things, the protection of our data, our right to freedom of expression and our right not to be discriminated against.