When the EU isn’t busy demanding Apple make 10-year old Android phones, it enjoys long walks on the beach, and shrouding the digital economy in more red tape than a dance around a Marxist maypole.
The European Union’s latest hosing of bureaucratic silly string comes by way of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a series of regulations designed to let smaller entities compete on a fair playing field with the reigning mobile “duopoly” of Google and Apple. However, two of those ‘smaller entities’ just so happen to be social media giant Meta and tech titan Microsoft.
