{"id":5459,"date":"2022-04-23T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/eu-agrees-rules-to-force-big-tech-to-rein-in-illegal-content-or-face-huge-fines\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T08:38:07","slug":"eu-agrees-rules-to-force-big-tech-to-rein-in-illegal-content-or-face-huge-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/eu-agrees-rules-to-force-big-tech-to-rein-in-illegal-content-or-face-huge-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"EU agrees rules to force big tech to rein in illegal content or face huge fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Services Act can now fine platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter up to 6% of their global revenue<\/p>\n<p>Large online platforms including Facebook, Google and Twitter will have to do more to tackle illegal content or face multibillion euro fines under a new European Union regulatory regime agreed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The wide-ranging Digital Services Act (DSA) can fine a company up to 6% of its global turnover for violating the rules \u2013 which would be $7bn (\u00a35.9bn) in the case of Facebook\u2019s owner \u2013 while repeated breaches could result in a tech firm being banned from doing business in the EU.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/23\/eu-agrees-rules-to-force-big-tech-to-rein-in-content-or-face-huge-fines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3669115de8915f6c027b61a3e07d97c38331b8dd\/0_2_5259_3155\/master\/5259.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f4ed0f65ca3e6c4611ad91994961cb73\" title=\"EU agrees rules to force big tech to rein in illegal content or face huge fines\" \/>Digital Services Act can now fine platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter up to 6% of their global revenue<br \/>\nLarge online platforms including Facebook, Google and Twitter will have to do more to tackle illegal content or face multibillion euro fines under a new European Union regulatory regime agreed on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe wide-ranging Digital Services Act (DSA) can fine a company up to 6% of its global turnover for violating the rules \u2013 which would be $7bn (\u00a35.9bn) in the case of Facebook\u2019s owner \u2013 while repeated breaches could result in a tech firm being banned from doing business in the EU. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Services Act can now fine platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter up to 6% of their global revenue Large online platforms including Facebook, Google and Twitter will have to do more to tackle illegal content or face multibillion euro fines under a new European Union regulatory regime agreed on Saturday. The wide-ranging Digital Services &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/eu-agrees-rules-to-force-big-tech-to-rein-in-illegal-content-or-face-huge-fines\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU agrees rules to force big tech to rein in illegal content or face huge fines<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}