The president of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States, Brendan Carr, has also participated in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) and took the opportunity to warn the European Union that, before this scenario of “regulatory protectionism” they are implementing, LTrump administration will defend the interests of his “Big Tech” and will insist on a “fair” playing field.
In this sense, Brendan Carr has shown his concern about the regulatory framework of Europe, which can impose “excessive rules” for technology companies. Specifically, he referred to the Digital Services Law (DSA) adopted in 2022 that, together with the “Digital Markets Law”, establish a complete set of new regulations that regulate the responsibilities of digital services to create a safer digital space and establish equitable competition conditions for all companies.
At the end of 2023 The European Commission opened a formal procedure to evaluate if X (formerly Twitter) -Pro-ownership Elon Musk, close to Donald Trump- could have violated the Digital Services Law In areas related to risk management, content moderation, deceptive interfaces, the transparency of advertising and accessors’ access to the data.
In July of last year the European Commission reported its preliminary opinion and pointed out that, in his opinion, This social network violated the Digital Services Law in “areas related to dark patterns, advertising transparency and access to data for researchers.”
Carr has assured that «it is a concern, I think, here, for the people of Europe, but for the technology companies of the United States that do business here. The censorship that is potentially coming out of free dialogue is something that is incompatible with our tradition of free dialogue in America and the commitments that these technological companies have made with the diversity of opinions ».
The president of the FCC has considered that It is “key” to have a regulatory environment that encourages billion and billion dollars in investment in the networks. And, how much more difficult it is for network suppliers and large technology to invest and build in our markets, “less likely to do so.”
He also made self -criticism and assured that EN USA are looking to simplify their regulation since this country still has many state and local rules that hinder investment in new networks. “We are working to simplify and deregulate,” Carr said.