{"id":800699,"date":"2023-12-02T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T10:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/12\/02\/tiktok-asks-eu-court-to-suspend-eu-gatekeeper-label-until-its-ruling\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T10:48:12","slug":"tiktok-asks-eu-court-to-suspend-eu-gatekeeper-label-until-its-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/12\/02\/tiktok-asks-eu-court-to-suspend-eu-gatekeeper-label-until-its-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok asks EU court to suspend EU gatekeeper label until its ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese conglomerate ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok has asked Europe&#8217;s second highest court to suspend its designation as a gatekeeper under onerous new EU tech rules until judges rule on its challenge against the label.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires TikTok and other designated gatekeepers Alphabet&#8217;s Google, Meta Platforms, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to make their messaging apps interoperate with rivals and let users decide which apps to pre-install on their devices.<\/p>\n<p>They are not allowed to favour their own services over rivals&#8217; or prevent users from removing pre-installed software or apps.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok last month challenged the EU decision at the Luxembourg-based General Court, saying its designation risks undermining the DMA goal of protecting gatekeepers from newer competitors like itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have applied for interim measures,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The bar for the court to approve interim measures is very high. Companies must show that situation is urgent and that they would suffer irreparable harm without an interim measure.<\/p>\n<p>Meta and Apple have also sued the Commission over their gatekeeper status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese conglomerate ByteDance&#8217;s TikTok has asked Europe&#8217;s second highest court to suspend its designation as a gatekeeper under onerous new EU tech rules until judges rule on its challenge against the label. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) requires TikTok and other designated gatekeepers Alphabet&#8217;s Google, Meta Platforms, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to make their messaging apps interoperate with rivals and let users decide which apps to pre-install on their devices. They are not allowed to favour their own services over rivals&#8217; or prevent users from removing pre-installed software or apps. TikTok last month challenged the EU decision at the Luxembourg-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}