Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act

Wi -Combinator, one of the world’s most intense startup accelerators, sent the Trump administration on Wednesday to support the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe, it is a broad law that is a widespread law that is a widespread law The goal of opening the market strength of the Big Tea.

DMA has nominated six technology agencies as “gatekeepers” on the Internet – alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Byright, Meta and Microsoft – and these technologies are limited to interconnecting strategies from getting involved in interconnected strategies on their platforms. The law applies to May 2023 and it is Already had a big impact on American technology companies.

In a letter in the White House X posts By Luther Loh, the head of the YC’s public policy, the Startup Accelerator argued that DMA should not be lumpy according to other European technology laws, which US officials often criticized as indifferent.

Instead, the WAC has argued in the letter that the DMA spirit of Europe is consistent with values ​​that promote – not obstacles – American innovation.

“[W]E has been requested to recover its position in Europe’s digital control, erected with respect to Europe’s digital control, which prevents innovation and those who encouraged it, saying “WAC-supported startups, independent technology agencies and trade companies were signed.”

It is not surprising that the WAC DMA will be expressed in a clear public support. Above all, the Exiler markets themselves as the champion of “Little Tech”-American Startup’s American initiative-backed ecosystem.

The YC argues in this letter that DMA opens the main ways to create opportunities for American startups in DMA, search and consumer applications and prevent large technology companies from boxing.

Specifically, in its letter indicates the YC Apple It is reported that Siri’s LLM -driven version is delaying up to 2027A few years after the contestants brought the Generator AI Voice Assistant to the market. WAC argues that it presents the lack of competitive pressure, noting that AI Voice Assistant third -party developers are unable to integrate their services on Apple’s operating system

The YC can take Big Tech in the task for anticipative behavior he has reported and take shots in companies like Apple, which argues that the initiative-backed startup damage the ecosystem. However, YC and others are becoming less influential in Washington in Washington in Washington.

Last year, a “Little Tech Agenda” publisher Andresen Horovits (A 16 Z) federal and local level spent millions of dollars to influence ethical fights. According to information from Open privacyA16z’s contributions during the 2024 US election cycle are a total of $ 89 million. YC, still a small player in American politics, Contributed to about $ 2 millionThe

What is less clear here is how the Trump administration will respond to the long -term DMA – and its WAC support.

President Trump indicated in January that he would do American Technology Companies Protect from additional European regulatorsThe But Trump also has ICally was tightened in tihassically large technology companies Like Apple, Google and Meta.

During the Paris AI Action Summit in February, Vice President JD Vans criticized several EU laws against technology agencies, including Digital Services Law and General Information Protection Control. However, Vans does not mention the DMA, which is more narrowly aimed at the practices of the anti -technology industry.

Low told TechCrunch last year During a rigid event That DMA is “not perfect, but at least they are stabbing to determine how the most severe form of self-pretending by these large companies.”

Lo did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comments.