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Big German newspapers do not need to comply under DMA.

The EU focusses, rightfully, on EU macro dynamics with these laws, not how smaller outlets work.

This is very much reasonable. When a platform is big, it has bigger impact, but also bigger budgets to hire legal help and bigger budgets to stay compliant.

This is well established in accounting where there exists different rules depending on size (in many jurisdictions)

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What’s another example of different rules depending on size? “Content Moderation” I think? Anything outside the DMA? I think small companies get some exceptions for documentation requirements?

in my part of Europe there are tons: companies over a certain size might have different rules for layoffs, have to have union representatives, must pay for safety courses for the employees, must employ a certain percentage of people with disabilities...

It is a derivative of what is called the "Risk Based Approach" in compliance, and is widely adopted.

As for companies and accounting you can look into the directive 2013/34/EU that established micro, small, and medium sized companies based on their size. These types of companies have different reporting requirements.

In the US, some laws specifically exclude small companies. For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 requires 15 employees, and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 requires 4 employees.

You could try to find some analogies but you probably won't succeed since this is clearly just targeting American big Tech

G-SIB banks for example

In practice it means that only American companies end up paying large fees to the EU.

There are no fees.

It also means that not all US companies have to comply, and that the ones that do are the most competitive companies in the market, making their claim that they have trouble competing moot.

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