The evil has a name: Günther Öttinger. Öttinger is pushing for what he calls the "Digital Single Market". The main idea is to facilitate the free flow of onlin

The evil has a name: Günther Öttinger. Öttinger is pushing for what he calls the "Digital Single Market". The main idea is to facilitate the free flow of online services and entertainment across national borders (of the EU). So far so good. But given that he, the commissioner for Digital Economy and !Society!, apparently only cares about the market and not what I'd call the indigenous Internet population/culture (which apparently all bigger political and economic players want to eliminate or at least don't care about) the dark era approaches indeed. Since he appears to view the Internet as nothing but a market and comes across like a guy from the past I'd speculate that he strives for some sort of protectionism for the European Internet (/"market") truly believing that this is what the EU really needs.