CER podcast: Unpacking the EU's new tech laws - and the UK's answer to them

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In late March, the EU agreed upon two big new pieces of legislation for regulating big tech and social media: the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). In this week’s CER podcast, our media co-ordinator Rosie Giorgi speaks to senior research fellow Zach Meyers about the motivations behind the new laws, the companies that will be affected and what the UK is doing to promote digital competition and online safety. 02:10 - Who are the so-called gatekeepers? 04:30 - What will the Digital Markets Act make companies do? 10:32 - Will these companies have to adopt DMA rules uniformly across their products/services? 13:38 - The impact of innovation within big tech itself 18:22 - The metaverse and what it is 20:40 - The short-term for consumers, when companies are grappling with implementing the rules 22:41 - Concerns about interoperability and data-sharing 26:02 - The UK’s answer to the DMA 30:06 - What are online platforms doing to regulate content? (now discussing the DSA) 34:00 - Drawing the line between harmful content and free speech 36:59 - The Commission’s last-minute request for crisis powers 40:40 - Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter 43:50 - The UK’s Online Safety Bill Produced by Rosie Giorgi Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together to the courage to be construing.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world
0:17.8	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.7	Hello and welcome to the Centre for European Reform Podcast. I'm Rosie Georgie, the CER's Media
0:33.9	Coordinator and in this episode I'll be speaking to my colleague Zach Myers
0:38.3	who's a senior research fellow and also a tech and competition policy whiz.
0:43.3	Hey Zach, thanks for coming on this episode.
0:46.3	Hi, you're raising, good to be here.
0:48.3	We're going to be speaking about the EU's moves to crack down on the market dominance of big tech companies and its bid to make digital
0:56.4	platforms more transparent and accountable in policing harmful content that's online. Those are the
1:02.7	main aims of two new big pieces of legislation, the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services
1:08.6	Act, which the European Parliament and Council agreed upon
1:12.2	in late March this year. In our conversation, we'll sometimes refer to them as the DMA and the DSA.
1:19.4	Now, there's a lot to unpack about both, so in this episode we'll talk about how these instruments
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