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Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission
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Tim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Webvotes For and says:Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster and others typically provide value by capturing information as you enter it: your birthday, your e-mail address, your likes, and links indicating who is friends with whom and who is in which photograph. The sites assemb... more Verified source (2010)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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MicrosoftTechnology companyvotes For and says:But too much friction exists today between creators and gamers; app store policies and practices on mobile devices restrict what and how creators can offer games and what and how gamers can play them. Our large investment to acquire Activision Blizza... more Unverified source (2022)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)US Commerce Department telecom agencyvotes For and says:WASHINGTON – The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said in a new report Wednesday that the current mobile app store model is harmful to consumers and developers, and recommended policy changes ... more Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Competition and Markets AuthorityUK competition regulatorvotes For and says:Under Theme 2, we have examined the extent to which Apple and Google, as owners of the main app stores in their respective ecosystems, have market power in the distribution of native apps. This includes the extent to which there are suitable alternat... more Unverified source (2021)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Tim SweeneyEpic Games CEOvotes For and says:So, on an open platform like Android should be. And it was advertised as being… All stores should operate at parity. Right? Once you’ve decided to install another store like the Epic Games store, it should have equal access the system software, as Go... more Unverified sourceDelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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John BergmayerPublic Knowledge legal directorvotes For and says:Allow sideloading. Apple doesn’t allow “sideloading” — that is, installing apps on a device without going through the app store — at all on its iOS devices. (The exceptions are enterprise certificates, mentioned above, and developers can install apps... more Unverified source (2019)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Jon von TetzchnerVivaldi CEO and Opera cofoundervotes For and says:The main risk is that you might get to use software and services that you will enjoy more. The gatekeeper is no longer going to be able to dictate what you use or try to force you to use software you do not like, such as Edge. If the idea is that it... more Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Brewster KahleInternet Archive founder; digital librarianvotes For and says:But the Web is fun. The Web is so easy to use and inviting that millions of people are putting interesting things online; in many ways pouring a digital representation of their lives into the Web. New features are being invented and added into the te... more Unverified source (2015)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitU.S. federal appellate courtvotes For and says:HiQ points out that data scraping is a common method of gathering information, used by search engines, academic researchers, and many others. According to hiQ, letting established entities that already have accumulated large user data sets decide who... more Unverified source (2019)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Lawrence LessigHarvard Law professorvotes For and says:She was able to do all the things she did because the technology is oblivious to whether she had permission to do what she did. The Internet was not built with permissions in mind. Free access was the rule. We can see the first by returning to the p... more Unverified source (2005)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Riley TestutIndependent iOS developer; AltStore creator.votes For and says:In practice though, the current App Store situation has some significant problems which are getting harder and harder to ignore — several of which Congress’ antitrust report explicitly call out, such as requiring developers to implement in-app purcha... more Unverified source (2020)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Mike MasnickTechdirt founder and editorvotes For and says:I know some people have compared your concept of "adversarial interoperability" with my concept of "protocols, not platforms," and I think that they come from similar places and are looking at similar goals, but there’s one element of the adversarial... more Unverified source (2020)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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David Heinemeier Hansson37signals CTO; Rails creatorvotes For and says:The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you o... more Unverified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Mitch StoltzEFF IP Litigation Directorvotes For and says:Interoperability between the products and services of different firms promotes competition by lowering switching costs. Requiring dominant firms to make their products interoperable, or reducing barriers to interoperability, are important components ... more Unverified source (2022)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Cory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes For and says:Interoperability lowers switching costs. Interoperability allows us, the users of technology, to set the terms on which we use that technology. It allows us to use the parts of products and services that benefit us, and block the parts that don’t. Th... more Verified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Ethan ZuckermanMIT scholar and public-interest technologistvotes For and says:This work is technically possible, but it requires a very different regulatory environment than the one we currently have, one that mandates interoperability and protects adversarial interoperability, the ability to build a product that announces “I’... more Unverified source (2022)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Epic GamesVideo game and engine companyvotes For and says:Apple demanded that Epic revert Fortnite to exclusively use Apple payments. Their proposal was an invitation for Epic to collude with Apple to maintain its monopoly over in-app payments on iOS, suppressing free market competition and inflating prices... more Unverified source (2020)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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European CommissionEU's executive bodyvotes For and says:Under Article 6(7) of the DMA, Apple must provide developers and businesses with free and effective interoperability with hardware and software features controlled by its operating systems iOS and iPadOS. The objective of Article 6(7) DMA is that de... more Unverified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Adam ThiererR Street Institute senior fellowvotes Against and says:I’m in league with Doctorow and EFF on some of these things, but also find myself thinking they go much too far in other ways. At root, their work and advocacy raise a profound question: should there be any general right to exclude on digital platfor... more Unverified source (2020)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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John GruberDaring Fireball writervotes Against and says:This, to me, is perhaps the key point that sideloading proponents ignore. Arguments in favor of allowing sideloading on iOS, from users, tend to boil down to “It’s my device, I should be allowed to install whatever I want. If most users want to stick... more Unverified source (2021)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Ivan KrstićApple security engineering headvotes Against and says:That’s a great misunderstanding – and one we have tried to explain over and over. The reality of what the alternative distribution requirements enable is that software that users in Europe need to use – sometimes business software, other times person... more Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Geoffrey A. ManneICLE president and foundervotes Against and says:But it isn’t (or shouldn’t be) about private contracts. Just about all human (commercial) activity requires interaction with others, and that means contracts and licenses. You don’t see anyone complaining about the “permission” required to rent space... more Unverified source (2014)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Dirk AuerAntitrust scholar, ICLEvotes Against and says:Before the DMA’s enactment, I raised serious concerns about how its rules would affect user privacy and security, as I argued that mandated interoperability is a key concern that poses significant risks for users. I also noted that mandating an optio... more Unverified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Alex StamosCybersecurity expert; Stanford lecturervotes Against and says:How do you tell your phone who you want to talk to, and how does the phone find that person? There is no way to allow for end-to-end encryption without trusting every provider to handle the identity management... If the goal is for all of the messagi... more Unverified source (2022)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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LinkedInProfessional networking platform company.votes Against and says:Data scraping, or third parties taking personal data from your profile without permission, is a breach of our policies and when necessary we take legal action as part of our efforts to combat it. We will continue to fight on behalf of our members to... more Unverified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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MetaSocial media and AI companyvotes Against and says:If you use Social Plugins, Facebook SDKs, or operate a Platform app or website, you must follow our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and these additional rules unless you have our written permission to do otherwise. [...] You may not use Face... more Unverified source (2013)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Moxie MarlinspikeSignal founder and cryptography researchervotes Against and says:One of the controversial things we did with Signal early on was to build it as an unfederated service. Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol‑based messe... more Unverified source (2016)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Tim CookCEO of Applevotes Against and says:Here in Washington and elsewhere, policymakers are taking steps in the name of competition that would force Apple to let apps onto iPhone that circumvent the App Store through a process called sideloading. That means data‑hungry companies would be ab... more Unverified source (2022)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Craig FederighiApple SVP of Software Engineeringvotes Against and says:It could open up a Pandora's box of unreviewed malware and software. Sideloading is a criminal's best friend. Unverified source (2021)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Apple Inc.Consumer technology and software companyvotes Against and says:We’ve always run the App Store to be a safe and trusted marketplace for our users, and to create an incredible business opportunity for developers. Due to the DMA, our EU users are experiencing the following impacts: More risks when downloading apps... more Unverified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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