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Comment by g_p

5 years ago

From a European perspective, EU regulation 2019/1150 covers protections for business users of online intermediation platforms [1].

Article 4 sets out a range of protections for business users, including a requirement to provide "a reference to the specific facts or circumstances, including contents of third party notifications, that led to the decision of the provider of online intermediation services, as well as a reference to the applicable grounds for that decision"

This would seem to point towards a gradual start of the change in this way, although it will be interesting to see if anyone from Europe is ever able to use this against Google and others successfully. On the whole, the legislation seems to be sufficient, and it will come down to the usual issues of national regulators and their willingness to aid in enforcement action.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...