The fourth ‘Wolfgang Lorenz Memorial prize for Internet-Free Minutes’ has been awarded to A1 Telekom Austria CEO Hannes Ametsreiter by the Monochrom artists’ collective. He won the booby prize for his rejection in February of the idea of net neutrality, saying the operator owns the technology and infrastructure and therefore should have the right to decide how it is used. The prize is named after the director of Austrian broadcaster ORF, who made a scatalogical remark in 2008 about young people disappearing into the internet. Lorenz said TV would remain the top medium with or without young viewers.
