Mathias Döpfner, digital counterrevolutionary

The digital counterrevolution is underway in Europe... Jean-Claude Juncker has stressed the need for European competitors to the Silicon Valley giants. Juncker’s election was widely credited to the efforts of an influential press baron: Mathias Döpfner... Corey Pein interviewed Döpfner for CJR in October... A month later, Axel lost a round when it was forced to opt back in to Google News after it’s Web traffic plummeted... "I definitely cannot imagine that ... the United States of America—where individual rights are the fundament of the creation of the society—will accept in the long term a society where you have total transparency of personal data ... unlimited possibilities to control and abuse individuals’ data and behavior... America confronts problems sometimes a little later, but it solves them more quickly, and in a more pragmatic way." - Mathias Döpfner, digital counterrevolutionary - Columbia Journalism Review