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It shouldn't simply transfer funds to bond holders who own newspaper debt, or shareholders of media companies, or billionaire dilettante news proprietors. It shouldn't make the news and tech into "partners": we want the press to hold tech to account, not join forces with it.

A month ago, @eff and I started publishing a five-part series of policy prescriptions "saving the news from tech." Part one was the "curtain raiser," setting up the whole program:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

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Saving the News From Big Tech

Media is in crisis: newsrooms all over the world are shuttering and the very profession of journalism is under sustained ideological and physical assault.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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Each week since, I've published a specific policy recommendation. The first one was breaking up the #AdTech industry, on the lines suggested by #SenatorMikeLee's #AMERICAAct:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech

Next was passing comprehensive privacy law, which would kill off #SurveillanceAds and force a switch to "contextual ads" (ads based on what you're looking at, not who you are):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

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To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech

This is part two of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here. Part four, about opening up app stores, is here.The news is in trouble.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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Both companies charge a whopping *30%* to process in-app payments, and both companies have strict rules banning app makers from evading this 30% #AppTax by steering customers to the web to complete payments:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-must-open-app-stores

The companies - nominally bitter competitors - have nevertheless converged on this 30% vig, allegedly without any anticompetitive collusion.

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To Save the News, We Must Open Up App Stores

This is part four of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here. Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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Apple uses #DRM to lock people into using its #AppStore, threatening anyone who reverse-engineers its devices to add competing stores with 5 year prison sentences under #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA).

Google's #Android *does* have a facility for "side-loading" apps that aren't in its app store, but the company uses a web of commercial requirements and technological tricks to prevent a competitor from emerging:

https://theplatformlaw.blog/2023/05/24/why-the-proposed-commitments-offered-by-google-to-the-uk-competition-authority-regarding-in-app-purchases-are-wrong-and-will-make-the-situation-of-app-developers-worse/

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Why the Proposed Commitments offered by Google to the UK competition authority regarding in-app purchases are wrong and will make the situation of app developers worse - The Platform Law Blog

Introduction On 19 April 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) issued a consultation over the commitments proposed by Google (the “Proposed Commitments”) to bring the CMA’s investigation into its conduct in relation to Google’s distribu…

^{Damien Geradin (The Platform Law Blog)}

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And so would their users: these app makers are passing on most of those payment costs to *us*, and we end up paying them, because there are only two major mobile platforms and they both charge the same app tax.

In the #EU, the #DigitalMarketsAct (#DMA) will force app stores to open up, paving the way for alternative app stores:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22996248/apple-sideloading-apps-store-third-party-eu-dma-requirement

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Apple would be forced to allow sideloading and third-party app stores under new EU law

Apple would be forced to allow third-party app stores and the sideloading of apps on the iPhone under EU legislation announced this week. The Digital Markets Act, or DMA, is intended to level the playing field in the tech sector.

^{Jon Porter (The Verge)}

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In the US, there's proposed laws like the #OpenAppsMarketsAct, which is likely to be reintroduced in this legislative session:

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition

The mobile duopoly hate this, of course, and claim that forcing them to permit rival app stores would put users' security at risk. It's true that this *could* happen, but it doesn't *need* to: security and openness are compatible:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2022/01/letter-to-the-us-senate-judiciary-committee-on-app-stores.html

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Blumenthal, Blackburn & Klobuchar Introduce Bipartisan Antitrust Legislation to Promote App Store Competition | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Amy...

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To Save the News, We Must Open Up App Stores

This is part four of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here. Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}