Let's get digital

EU Untangled

News, Politics

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The European Union has an ambitious strategy to usher in data-driven innovation and stay competitive in the digital age. Proposals such as the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act have been making waves in the EU and abroad, promising to reign in tech giants and protect human rights online. But why all the fuzz? What sets these initiatives apart and can they live up to their promise? What else is in the EU’s digital arsenal and why should we care? Is Europe too early or too late to the digital party? Buckle up, tune in to EU Untangled, and get into digital with us.

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0:00.0	Most of us are happy to use all kinds of digital services and tools constantly.
0:08.0	Messaging with friends and families, sharing holiday pictures, or buying all kinds of stuff online.
0:14.4	It's easy, it's fast, it's comfy.
0:17.7	Yet something has changed in recent years.
0:21.1	Many of the services we are happy to use online
0:24.1	have lost a bit their, so to say, innocence
0:27.0	and started to impact the real world, quote-unquote,
0:30.8	more than we thought.
0:32.5	Online competition has stalled
0:34.3	because of just a few big players seem to be left.
0:38.5	Hate speech has transformed some of the online spaces
0:41.6	into rather unpleasant, you could even say, toxic experiences.
0:45.7	And there's even evidence that social media has influenced elections
0:49.5	and led to hate crimes on our streets.
0:52.6	So there seem to be several phases to digitalization.
0:57.4	At the same time, the European Union has started to work on a series of laws
1:01.9	that aim to tackle some of these issues.
1:05.1	I just mentioned, but at the same time also try to unleash the economic and societal
1:09.6	potentials of digitalization.
1:12.0	So stay tuned for an all-digital episode of EU Untangled.
1:18.0	Now is the music.
1:19.4	Music. Welcome to another episode of EU Untangled.
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