This essay addresses a few core aspects of the current EU legal framework concerning the internet and the digitalization process, and provides initial reflections on the newly issued legislation regulating internet-based or internet-related activities, the primary aimbeing that of raising awareness of both the opportunities that a more cohesive and con -sistent integration of internet technologies into social processes allows, and of the various legislative or legislation-related pitfalls and gray areas that need to be acknowledged,evaluated, and in some cases amended.