EU citizens are worse off only having access to insular media with one viewpoint. If you're German and a significant amount of foreign media is either blocked or scorned, you end up enabling giant frauds like Wirecard.

Germany's homegrown DW had fawning coverage of the fraud, calling it remarkable and a "weapon against poverty". [1] [2]

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/whats-behind-the-remarkable-rise-of-ge...

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/is-fintech-the-latest-weapon-in-the-fi...