Rapporti verbatim tad-dibattiti

It-Tnejn, 4 ta' Lulju 2022 - Strasburgu

L-Att dwar is-Servizzi Diġitali - L-Att dwar is-Swieq Diġitali (dibattitu)

  Alex Agius Saliba (S&D). – Mr President, both the DSA and the DMA are the first of its kind – unique instruments to regulate big tech companies. The new rules will force the tech giants to play fair and end their abuse of power and ability to game the digital economy for their dividends while creating harm for our societies, for our citizens.

We will finally move away from a purely advertisement—centric and surveillance-based model to rules focusing on people’s interests in accessing and sharing high quality content, high quality information. More than ever, in the wake of the fighting of propaganda and also the disinformation war, we will need the democratic tools to regulate user safety, to protect our consumers, to fight targeted advertisement, to end the surveillance of users, and to safeguard transparency and accountability.

At the beginning of the mandate, we have put the framework to ensure that what is illegal offline should also be illegal online. I must say that the new rules have fully fulfilled our expectations to empower people and to take back control of the Internet. Once again, Europe has been the champion and shaper of a better global digital world.