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It’s no accident that the European Union’s Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act have such similar-sounding names: They were conceived together and, at the end of 2020, proposed in unison as a twin package of digital policy reforms. EU lawmakers had overwhelmingly approved them by mid-2022, and both regimes were fully up and running by early 2024. While each law aims to achieve distinct things, via its own set of differently applied rules, they are best understood as a joint response to Big Tech’s market power.
