Member States are increasingly introducing national measures governing the activities of providers of intermediary services, for example through laws governing the removal of, or disabling of access to, illegal content. Such divergent national measures affect the ability of recipients of intermediary services to access and to provide information across the internal market, thereby negatively affecting intra-Union trade in those services and consequently restricting the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services. In so far as those national measures target online platforms or search engines that facilitate public debate and economic transactions, divergent national provisions limit the choices of recipients and undermine the predictability for providers.