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Europe and the US must team up to promote a democratic Internet against Chinese authoritarianism and beat China in the race for technological supremacy. It won’t be easy.

Unbridled social media content used to be seen as supporting democracy, but this free flow of data has produced dangerous side effects.

Some of Europe’s telecommunication operators seek a major change to how the Internet works – forcing large content, app, and cloud-service providers – such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix – to pay additional fees for Internet infrastructure. It’s poor policy.