Justice min: Hungary considering sanctioning tech firms for unfair practices

Hungary's justice minister has called an extraordinary meeting of the Digital Freedom Committee tasked with monitoring online space over what she says are violations of democratic norms by tech giants. Judit Varga said should will also meet the head of the Hungarian Competition Authority to discuss possibilities of sanctioning unfair trading practices in respect of tech firms. In an English-language post on Facebook on Monday, Varga said tech firms were violating "all those fundamental democratic legal norms that form the basis of Western-type culture" by secretly restricting the visibility of, or "shadow banning" certain users "for political purposes".