Digital regulation no longer pits Brussels against platforms, but also pits directorates-general against each other. With TikTok, DG Connect is using the DSA to intervene in service design. With the Digital Fairness Act, DG Justice is preparing a text to do exactly the same thing. Behind the rhetoric of protection, a power struggle is playing out: who within the Commission will get their hands on the very architecture of platforms? The preliminary decision announced on Friday by the European Commission regarding TikTok goes far beyond the simple application of the Digital Services Act. It sends a clear political signal: in the name of the DSA, DG Connect now has the authority…
