Photo: JOEL SAGET / Contributor (Getty Images) France is reportedly lobbying hard in favor of granting individual European Union member states more power to punish Big Tech when it starts acting a fool. Advertisement Companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook were first dealt a blow in December 2020, when the European Commission introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at regulating how to companies are allowed to operate within the EU. The first piece of legislation, known as the Digital Markets Act, limits self-preferencing by companies in, say, app store search results, and the second piece of legislation, known as the Digital Services Act, focuses on the creation of a single set of rules for the EU to hold companies to in an effort to keep users safe online.