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✅ The Commission's decision makes the power of EU's digital rulebook clear

❌ The low fines may not be enough to get companies like Meta and Apple to change

❓The Commission decision declared Meta's binary hashtag#PayOrOkay model unlawful, but did not give a final decision on the so-called 'third alternative' with 'less personalised ads'

It's great to see the in action, protecting our from tech corporations' voracious, profit-driven motives 🤩

@edri EU honestly need more digital autonomy. A start would be to invest more in or aid EU tech firms - a bit like we help EU farmers.

@Kethianna You mean, by creating rents for the landed gentry proportional to the amount of (digital) land they hoarded? Better not.

We already have a good approach, @NGIZero and #NLnet. Just need to scale it up by two or three orders of magnitude.

@nemobis @NGIZero didn't know about NGI zero initiative from NLnet foundation. Thanks for the info - just looked it up.

Yeah, it needs to be upscaled by at least thrice the current amount.

@edri I appreciate your coverage and insight. While I consider myself a fairly proficient English speaker, "stick the landing" isn't a term I've come across before. I would appreciate, seeing that as a European organisation you are adressing many non-native speakers, that you use clear and easy to understand language instead of figures of speech that are hard to make sense of.
Personally, I feel that hundreds of millions are quite substantial, and they could be repeated if violations persist.