Automattic

EU Legislative Interests

We have contributed to consultations about the Digital Services Act and its implementation.

Communication Activities

In collaboration with the Open Internet Alliance, we have published two open letters regarding the Digital Services act: https://transparency.automattic.com/2018/06/12/were-against-bots-filtering-and-the-eus-new-copyright-directive/ https://transparency.automattic.com/2021/06/23/the-digital-services-act-defending-the-digital-single-market-and-the-open-internet/ In collaboration with Middle Tech Europe (MTE), we convened a roundtable with members of European Parliament to discuss issues related to the implementation of the DSA. MTE has also been involved with the activities outlined here https://middletecheurope.eu/latest-news/.

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

Tech Against Terrorism:https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/2021/07/27/announcing-tech-against-terrorisms-newest-members-3/ Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: https://gifct.org/membership/ Middle Tech Europe

Organisation Members

Open Internet Alliance: https://openinternetalliance.net/about-the-oia/

Additional Information

The figure above represents the salary percentage for an FTE who works on representing our interests and the costs incurred for membership in a group chaired by DGA Group Europe SA. We do not incur office costs as we are a distributed company. As detailed previously, our activities in the EU are minimal.