The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow third-party app stores...
  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    944·
    7 months ago

    If you don’t like the products of Big Tech, don’t use it. Don’t like oil, don’t use it. The EU might as well ban Big Tech.

    • catalog3115@lemmy.worldEnglish
      431·
      7 months ago

      It’s not that simple. I don’t like Facebook & I don’t like Facebook. Still Facebook collects data about me. Tell me why shouldn’t Facebook be stopped? Here data is new oil. Facebook is mining for that Oil on my land. You wouldn’t allow oil company to mine oil on your land right.

        • catalog3115@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          7 months ago

          Lol, it’s funny how you cry free market. Free market doesn’t not mean violating someone’s privacy. No free market can exist without regulations & standards. Without regulations exploitation takes place.