Europe ‘must not be bullied’ by Trump and Musk on tech laws, NGOs say Letter to Ursula von der Leyen urges European Commission not to weaken enforcement of DSA and DMA.
A coalition of NGOs has urged the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, not to be bullied by Donald Trump and Elon Musk into weakening the enforcement of the EU’s tech regulations.
In a letter to von der Leyen, 39 organisations, mostly NGOs, said that big tech leaders were “seeking to mobilise the Trump administration” to protect their ability to exploit users and businesses dependent on them, while seeking to “stifle potential competitors”.
It called on the commission not to weaken enforcement of the Digital Services Act or the Digital Markets Act, two EU laws that came into force in 2022.
The Digital Markets Act was created to ensure that the biggest tech companies, including Alphabet, Amazon and Meta, do not abuse their powerful position to squeeze out potential competitors.
