It amuses me to read all these delusional comments on a biased misleading article written by a lobbying NGO which is funded by Soros, Omidyar and a bunch of other American billionaires. What's especially funny is that silly commentators are whining about EU getting lobbied by American corporations when the very same commission is actually being lobbied by US entities exporting "progressive views" overseas, instead of applying them in the homeland (this very same article as an example). As the result, while the US, where lobbying is prohibited by FARA btw, is going forward with both IT and more traditional industries, the EU is lagging behind from all these idiotic regulations that are harming European startups first, clearing the way for rich American corporations which have enough capital and lawyers to comply with all this mess.

Your idol Noam Chomsky once said in one of the interviews that most of the intellectuals and activists are intellectual herd whose opinion swing with the main party line, in general. This is the feeling I get from reading these comments.