Hi all,
The long awaited Digital Services Act package consultations (yes several) have been published yesterday.
==Consultation Survey==
The main part *seems* to be a humongous six section survey on all sorts of aspects of the online world, covering things like self-employed people using online platforms, illegal content, hate speech and competition law.
We have extracted the questions on Meta-Wiki and invite all interested Wikimedians and friends to comment or edit answers:
The question are more general, social questions like "Should platforms work against misinformation during an
election or health crisis?" and "Should speaking time in democratic debates be limited online as we
do offline?".
But there are also some very concrete questions, like "Are public interest notices and notices that refer to other sources the right
tool to avoid censorship while tackling misinformation?" or "How to define online platforms acting as gatekeepers and should we regulate them additionally with ex-ante rules?" or even "Does the current liability regime need clarifications, like what is "active" and "passive" and a "mere intermediary"?"
The deadline for this is 8 September.
==Feedback on ex ante regulatory instrument of very large online platforms acting as gatekeepers==
The Commission is having an entire section in the consultation about what would be "gatekeeper platforms" and how they should be regulated. Nevertheless, they are inviting stakeholders to provide a free-form position on this. Both the separate nature of this consultation and its much shorter timeline are suspicious. [1]
The deadline for this is 30 June.
==Feedback on deepening the Internal Market and clarifying responsibilities for digital services==
In a second, also much shorter, parallel consultation the Commission is asking about the liability rules for online platforms. This is also free-form and covers ground the large survey already asks about. [2]
The deadline for this is also 30 June.
We are already working on this across Berlin, Brussels, DC and San Francisco. Feel free to join the effort! Get in touch directly, edit on Meta-Wiki or spark up a conversation here on the list.
Cheers,
Dimi