Bluesky Threatened With Violation Of EU Platform Rules

Bluesky broke DSA rules in the European Union (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA Bluesky must face legal challenges when the number of users is on the rise massively. This microblogging platform is considered to have violated platform rules implemented in the European Union.

First reported by Reuters, the European Commission said that the platform had violated the Digital Service Act (DSA). However, Bluesky could not be sentenced because the platform was not included in the platform category under DSA rules.

DSA is designed specifically to ask for accountability to large platforms, such as X or Threads, for example. Platforms that are under this rule must have users of more than 45 million.

Seeing this requirement, Bluesky certainly did not meet the requirements. However, the massive increase in the platform in a short time made the European Commission start to worry. Bluesky was also considered to have committed a violation due to a simple problem.

This alternative platform X and Threads does not include the number of their users on the website page so that the number of users, both active and registered, is not very clear. To find out the exact number, we need to see a third-party tracking site.

Ten days ago, the number of Bluesky users was still 15 million. The number of account registrants on this platform continued to increase until Bluesky finally had 22.5 million users. With an increase of nearly 10 million in less than two weeks, the European Commission began to pay attention to this platform.

"All platforms in the European Union... must have a special page on their website that lists the number of users they have in the European Union and their official location," European Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said. "This is not true for Bluesky until now. This is not followed."

Seeing this situation, Regnier explained that the European Commission had asked 27 national governments to look for 'Bluesky tracks', such as offices in the European Union. Although deemed to have committed a violation, the European Commission has not contacted Bluesky.