Macron Wants To Rein Inward Silicon Valley, From Brussels

Good.
Shut it down.
Twitter too.
From Politico.eu, July 25:

But opponents are already massing against his close ambitious excogitation — to alter Europe’s approach to meshing liability.

Emmanuel Macron has laid his hear to imposing tougher rules on the world’s biggest tech companies, together with he plans to usage adjacent year’s European election to deed his agenda forward, a government minister together with meridian officials told POLITICO.

The French president is the driving forcefulness behind controversial plans to impose a revenue taxation on companies similar Google together with Facebook, together with he’s an ally of European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager — the adult woman branded the EU’s “tax lady” yesteryear Donald Trump — who final calendar week slapped a €4.3 billion fine on Google over its Android mobile software.

Now Macron wants to press fifty-fifty to a greater extent than far-reaching regulations on Silicon Valley firms. He’s eyeing the European Parliament election adjacent May to industrial plant life a wide centrist voting bloc inward Brussels that volition assist him weigh inward on the Commission’s agenda for 2019, alongside digital policy at the midpoint of his plans.

“We stimulate got to become farther than the European Commission has on this subject,” Macron’s secretarial assistant of province for digital affairs, Mounir Mahjoubi, said inward an interview. “The elections are an chance to speed things up. The European Parliament’s start yr has to become fast. It’s the digital basis … 6 months is a lot. We can’t stimulate got 3 years.”

One business office of the French president’s agenda has to produce alongside regulating online deportment on platforms similar Google, Twitter together with Facebook. His government, flanked yesteryear European Union allies, is already succeeding yesteryear getting the European Commission to pose frontward a police that would forcefulness platforms to stimulate got downwardly terrorist content inside a curt timeframe, inward what would rate a pregnant shift away from electrical flow voluntary schemes.

But Macron wants to become further, yesteryear upending the legal framework that currently underpins platforms inward Europe together with grants them express liability over hosted content.
In this effort, which involves reopening Europe’s e-Commerce Directive, the 40-year-old is probable to sew together against determined opposition from other European Union countries, particularly inward the N together with east, which tend stimulate got a to a greater extent than liberal sentiment of tech regulation.
“We withal haven’t had the correct sum of give-and-take on this at the European level,” Mahjoubi added.

Les copains de Macron
France, which is the exclusively European Union province to stimulate got a police against imitation intelligence on its statute books, had a express usage inward writing Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, a sweeping revamp of privacy rules that came online inward May, together with subjects companies to much tighter rules for how they collect together with procedure data....MUCH MORE