Under the Digital Services Act, the commission can levy hefty fines against platforms such as X, and in cases of blatant violations and immediate danger, it can issue blocking orders. This strategy proved successful with the case of TikTok Lite: the EU threatened a ban, after which the Chinese firm withdrew the app from the European market. Yet the commission has so far been cautious about imposing stringent measures against U.S. companies.
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