The €91 Billion Elephant: Romania’s Regulator Just Told Google, Meta and TikTok the Party Is Over
TL;DR: Romania’s ONJN has stopped asking nicely: 1,180 sites blacklisted in 16 months, 5-hour DSA takedown orders, and formal notice to Google, Meta, TikTok and the payment processors that carrying unlicensed gambling ads is now complicity, not oversight. The legal ground shifted underneath the platforms — OUG 77/2009 demands a whitelist standard (Romanian-licensed advertisers only), not a blacklist one, and the CJEU’s €750k Google ruling … Continue
