I guess it’s because Xshitter is going down anyway, and the EU doesn’t want to take the blame for it…
To sum it up: twitter’s business is so irrelevant that they don’t qualify to be subject to the DMA.
Ketamine Karen must be hurting after such a burn.
Important note: We are talking about the Digital Markets Act, not to be confused with the Digital Services Act.
If they add additional services on their path to become an everything app I’m sure this will be revisited.
Yeah Twitter is still designated as a large online platform under the DSA.
Dodging the DMA only has implications for Twitter advertising and federation, I think.
Basically, Twitter is not seen as a monopoly on the microblogging market, but it is still a very large communication platform that must pay special attention to moderation practices.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act
I imagine the brunt of Twitter’s argument here is that they have strong competition from Bluesky and Threads, so are not seen as a gatekeeper in the market for microblogging advertising.
I wonder if they included Mastodon in their “competitor list”.
I wouldn’t think so, since Mastadon isn’t inherently “owned” by any one company and doesn’t rely on an advertising business strategy.
Because this confuzzled me, note that the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) are two separate things.
The Digital Markets Act is the one which is meant to remove economic barriers by “gatekeepers”. For example the DMA is used to force Google and Apple to open their app stores.
The Digital Services Act is the one that regulates (among other things) moderation, political neutrality and removal of extremist content on social media platforms. That’s the one Thierry Breton oversaw and threatened Elon with.
So while exTwitter’s lawyers may sigh in relief, because they got out of the DMA; the DSA is still looming large.
