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Washington, DC – March 31: The Federal Communication Commissioner Brendan Carr, speaks during a subcommittee of the Chamber of Energy and Commerce Committee on communications and technology audiences entitled Connecting America: Supervision of the FCC, in Capitol Hill on Thursday, March 31, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo of Sossford/The Washington Post through Getty Images)
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Barcelona – The president of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, promised to defend the interests of United States technology companies against “excessive” European regulation, since he urged a “fair and fair play field.”
Speaking in front of an audience of leaders and analysts of the technology industry at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Carr said that the technological rules of the European Union have been perceived by US technological giants as “excessive” and “incompatible” with US values.
He referred specifically to the EU Digital Services LawA historical regulation of the block that aims to address the illegal and harmful content online.
“We return to our roots of the first amendment, where we return to our tradition of freedom of expression,” Carr said, he added that he had the feeling that the right of people to freedom of expression online was something that has eroded since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.
“From the president (Donald) Trump for me, throughout the government, we are encouraging our technology companies to stop the censorship we saw in recent years,” Carr said.
“There is some concern that I have regarding the approach that Europe has adopted with the DSA in particular,” he added. “There is a risk that this regulatory regime imposes excessive rules regarding freedom of expression.”
It is not the first time that the United States has marked concerns about European technological regulation.
In an important international summit on AI in Paris last month, the United States vice president JD Vance He pointed to EuropeClaiming regulation has created heavy compliance considerations for United States technology companies.
On February 21, President Trump issued a directive that threatened to impose tariffs on Europe to combat what he called “extortion abroad” of US technology companies through taxes, fines, practices and policies of digital services.
In response to Trump’s rates, the EU has reportedly threatened to use a New instrument of “anti-coercir”which allows the block to take measures in cases of economic coercion against the EU member states.
“I think it is a concern here for the people of Europe, but (also) for US technology companies that do business here,” Carr said.
“The censorship that is potentially lowering the DSA pipe is something that is incompatible with both our tradition of freedom of expression in the United States and with the commitments that these technological companies have made in the diversity of opinions,” he added.
Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice President of Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission, did not directly address the comments of the US regulator. Uu. On the excessive European rules when speaking during a discussion panel after Carr’s comments.
Instead, he said that Europe was committed to improving competitiveness throughout the block when it comes to technological innovation and digital transformation.
“We will propose several … packages in which we are reviewing our rules,” said Virkkunen. He also requested the creation of a single digital market to harmonize the regulation of technological and telecommunications industries throughout the EU.
It occurs after Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, issued a high range report Understand radical reforms around technological competitiveness to address weak economic growth and productivity compared to the United States and China.
