The Government has approved the designation of the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) as coordinator and supervisor of digital services. This step will allow the agency to perform new supervision functions, including the control of large electronic commerce platforms (Amazon, Shein, Temu …) and the products they sell. In this way Spain meets the decision by the European Commission that each EU member country has its own digital services coordinator, with the objective of supervising and enforcing the obligations of the European Digital Services Regulations, which He entered into force in February 2024.
This has been indicated by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the presentation of the Digital Rights Observatory, where he has also explained that he will propose to fine the owners of social networks on each occasion that Instagram, Facebook, X, Tiktok … Vulnere The fundamental rights of users. “The CEOs cannot flee their obligations, and if they do they must pay for the damage caused by their platforms,” he said ..
«We cannot allow the digital space to be the Wild West, to be insulted, threatened, it is tied, the people are abused without any consequence. We have let the digital services save the market without knowing their potential damage, ”said Sánchez, who in turn has proposed three measures: to end the anonymity in social networks, go further to defend digital rights and ensure that algorithms be transparent. “The technology must respond for their actions,” he said.
During the presentation of the Digital Rights Observatory, the Minister for Digital and Public Function, Oscar López, has also explained that the initiative promoted by Red.es seeks to boost the knowledge, debate and dissemination of these rights Among citizens. He will do it through survey, congresses, talks and exhibitions; with a endowment of 9 million euros and with the collaboration of 260 experts and 177 public and private institutions, such as the Hermes Foundation, or educational centers such as the Carlos III University, among others.
Minister López said that it is necessary to promote “the rights of equality, participation, in specific environments and in the new digital environments.” «Digitization offers numerous advantages in economics, health and environment, and tests us with cybercrime; Old ideas that seemed banished gain a second life in digital, such as homophobia, machismo or xenophobia ». For experts, deregulation favors impunity on the Internet, for this reason, they emphasize that digital rights “defend people against digital abuses.” López apostill: “The road will not be easy and resistance will be tireless, but in the face of denialism, science and the bully, the truth.”
For its part, the general secretary of the Hermes Foundation, Luisa Alli, stressed that the rights of citizenship are being violated in the digital environment “almost every day.” Throughout his speech, he stressed that this observatory is “pioneer” and that such a tool is needed since citizens are not aware that they are living “in the jungle.”
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