The EU is currently working on its own and stricter version of the Network Enforcement Act, which is intended to increase transparency and security for users on the Internet and will force large social media platforms and online marketplaces to cooperate. Read more about this below.
The EU wants to take action against hate speech, misinformation and other harmful content with new rules on the Internet. This was agreed upon by representatives of the member states and EU parliamentarians in the last 16-hour round of negotiations on this topic. The original draft of the Digital Service Act (DSA) dates back to December 2020 and is intended to enable more responsible online platforms on the one hand and a safe online experience for users on the other. The EU legislation is stricter than the German Network Search Act (NetzDG), which has been applied to social media with more than two million members since 2018.
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According to the DSA, not only social media platforms but also marketplaces should take action. These include making it easier for users to report illegal content and allowing site operators to react more quickly, closer examination of personal data on online marketplaces to prevent problems and ensure mutual security, and protection of fundamental rights, which is intended to ensure that reports are not arbitrary or discriminatory, but rather be dealt with quickly, taking into account freedom of opinion and expression. To this end, the EU and the member states would like to have insight into the algorithms of large online platforms and allow penalties of up to 6% of the global turnover of the respective company.
The platforms should become safer for their users through new transparency guidelines and give them the opportunity to control how their data is used and e.g. B. Prohibit targeted advertising based on personal factors such as sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. In addition, the protection of minors is to be improved and manipulation by “nudging” is to be prohibited. So far, the law is only provisional, which still needs to be worked out and formulated further on a technical level. Only then can the European Council and the European Parliament formally approve it. After 20 days, the law can be published in the EU Official Journal and officially come into force 15 months later at the earliest.
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