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Digital Platforms as Regulated Entities: our Single Market, our rules 연사: Commissioner Thierry Breton일시: 2023년 3월 17일 장소: Annual Conference of the European Commission Legal Service 422 Words  <Glossary>1) Digital Services Act 디지털서비스법 2) Digital Market Act 디지털시장법  Ladies and Gentlemen,By passing the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act into law in record time, the EU has become the first jurisdiction in the world where online platforms no longer set their own rules. They are now regulated entities in the same way financial institutions are.Our ambition is to ensure a safe and trustworthy online space that enables free choice of innovative products and services and respects fundamental rights.Safe and trustworthy internetBefore the Digital Services Act, it was primarily the platforms who decided how information is moderated online. There were no due diligence requirements, no rules on transparency of content moderation practices, and no effective democratic oversight.The fundamental rights of users online were not consistently respected and there was no common standard for online protection in the Single Market. The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian war against Ukraine have shown how digital services can be misused to spread illegal and harmful information.The Digital Services Act fundamentally changes this: It sets clear rules on online content moderation practices, in particular concerning the removal of illegal content, and their role in protecting both freedom of speech and healthy, well-informed public debate. It equips European citizens with the tools to understand and interact with the information they see online, giving them unequivocal rights rather than leaving them to the discretion of private actors and opaque recommender systems. It also provides special protection for the most vulnerable user groups online. It prohibits online advertising based on profiling using sensitive personal data, such as those revealing racial or ethnic origin, and bans all targeted advertising towards children.The Digital Services Act – the DSA – is set to be the gold standard that ensures transparency and accountability of the online space.And it will do this in a very innovative way. We will see an about-turn in the way very large online platforms behave. Before the DSA, some of these platforms behaved as if they were “too big to care”. But with size comes systemic relevance, and that entails responsibility. These platforms will now be required to do more in terms of the organisation and design of their systems.Safeguarding fair and innovative internetAnd that's not all. Our ground-breaking digital regulatory framework provides for more stringent rules for the conduct of a specific group of online platforms. I am talking of the platforms which are not only systemically relevant, but also “gatekeepers” between business users and consumers. As such, these platforms can create a bottleneck in the digital economy.