8 Amendments of Tiemo WÖLKEN related to 2020/2018(INL)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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1. Stresses that wherever it is technically possible and reasonable, intermediaries should be required to enable the anonymous use of their services and payment for them, since anonymity effectively prevents unauthorised data disclosure and identity theft; notes that where the Directive on Consumer Rights requires commercial traders to communicate their identity, providers of major market places could be obliged to verify their identity, while in other cases the right to use digital services anonymously should be upheldaffirms that whenever platforms must verify the identity of users, they may not disclose users' identities without explicit and freely given consent;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
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4. Stresses that the responsibility for enforcing the law, deciding on the legality of online activities and ordering hosting service providers to remove or disable access to illegal content as soon as possible should rest with independent judicial authorities; warns therefore against provisions encouraging voluntary measures by platforms; underlines the need to ensure full respect for fundamental rights and the civil law rights of users; considers that only a hosting service provider that has actual knowledge of illegal content and its illegal nature should be subject to content removal obligations;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
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5. Emphasises that the spread of false and racist informationdisinformation and harmful content on social media should be contained by giving users control over content proposed to them; stresses that curating content on the basis of tracking user actions should require the user’s consent; proposes that users of social networks should have a right to see their timeline in chronological order; suggests that dominant platforms should provide users with an API with or without any curation; suggests that platforms with significant market power should provide an API for users to have content curated by software or services of their choice;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
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6. Stresses that, in order to overcome the lock-in effect of centralised networks and to ensure competition and consumer choice, users of dominant social media services and messaging services with significant market power should be given a right to cross-platform interaction via open interfaces (interconnectivity).
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
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6a. Affirms that the country of origin principle for the provision of information society services is central to the functioning of the digital single market;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
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6b. Strongly recommends that platforms serving as online marketplaces provide users with information about the main parameters determining the order and rank of products presented to users as a result of their search queries, in particular if the result of a search query has been influenced by any remuneration paid by a supplier, or in cases where the platform operator acts as supplier for some of the products appearing as results of the search query;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
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6c. Suggests that platforms providing a reputation system for the suppliers of goods or services must provide information about how such reputation scores are generated; recommends in this respect that reviews feeding into such reputation systems should be based on genuine experiences and originate from a party to the transaction; stresses that no review should be published if its author has received any benefit for giving a specific positive or negative review;
Amendment 81 #
6d. Recommends that platforms providing a reputation system for the suppliers of goods or services allow for existing reviews to be transferred to the reputation system of another platform upon request of the supplier as well as upon termination of the platform-supplier contract; stresses that consumers need to be informed of the origin of reviews if they were transferred from another platform;