The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow third-party app stores...
What parties should we vote for to make sure they keep protecting consumers?
Volt wants:
To make digital rights binding. They call for a “Declaration on European Digital Rights and Principles”.
Tax revenues from digital technologies where they are generated.
Guarantee net neutrality and reject contradictory laws.
Enact laws against the unethical use of AI.
How does taxing revenue from digital technology where it’s generated work?
Can you explain what that means for me.
When you buy something, the seller pays a VAT tax (something about 17% to 23% of your purchase, depending on the country).
If I’m a French company and I sell something to a customer in Finland (we would be both in the EU) taxes would be paid in either France or Finland (it depends on the kind of thing I’m selling and the kind of customer).
If I understand correctly, they want to tax digital services in the place where the work is actually generated. So, in France.
Correct. Amazon for example: everything that is sold via Amazon in Europe is taxed in Ireland. Even if a product which is available on Amazon is produced in France, stored in a French Amazon warehouse and shipped to a French customer. Just because it’s possible, they pay the reduced taxes in Ireland for such a deal. That needs to be fixed.
Ahh now I understand the reasoning, and I completely agree.
To be fair, some things are already taxed in the place where work is created, regardless of the company headquarters. E.g. event tickets (VAT is always applied in the country where the event is taking place)
anything but the right-wing ones.
Depends on you country, but the right wing one are usually not the ones that are so pro-regulation.
If north America & Australia’s biggest exports start having effect they will be very pro-regulation. Just pro-regulatory-capture.
As left as you can. I’d recommend something less extreme if proto-fascists aka liberals had not lied to us for decades.
Pirates.
Discard the Brownshirts, their collaborators, and the Putin fluffers, and you probably won’t have many choices left.
And thieves. Usually also some of the 3 you mentioned, but sometimes just that.
Depends on what country you live in. I will vote for a party in The Left (GUE/NGL) group. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_European_Parliament