Publication

This paper examines the ongoing debates on the role that the concept of net neutrality - which includes the need to preserve the Internet as a space open to innovation and the freedom of users to access content and services - should play in the EU's Internet policy. The main thrust of the author's argument is that the EU and other actors should not impose neutrality obligations on platforms (such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft etc), but rather seek to cooperate with them to ensure that the design of their algorithms and their editorial choices are compatible with media pluralism objectives that in the public interest.