"Barbara van Schewick, a law professor at Stanford Law School, argued that the current loopholes threatened both free and open access and economic growth.
"'Fast Lanes' on the internet harm innovation, free expression, and democratic discourse in Europe," she wrote on blogging platform Medium. "The future of the Internet in Europe is on the line. It’s up to all of us to save it."
In an open letter headed by van Schewick, firms including BitTorrent, Kickstarter, Netflix, Reddit, Soundcloud, Tumblr and Wordpress said the current draft legislation threatened to "undermine the EU technology industry"."