The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet
THE SO WHAT
A €550M DSA fine on AliExpress shows Brussels is serious about making marketplaces police illegal and unsafe goods — and the liability is now material. Any platform operating in the EU should be budgeting for compliance engineering and content/product moderation at infrastructure scale, not as a policy side project.
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