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UK Government Wants To Kill Net Neutrality In EU
Glyn Moody writes "Not content with snooping on all Internet activity, the UK government now wants to introduce changes to the contentious EU Telecoms Package, which will kill net neutrality in the EU: 'Amendments to the Telecoms Package circulated in Brussels by the UK government, seek to cross out users' rights to access and distribute Internet content and services. And they want to replace it with a "principle" that users can be told not only the conditions for access, but also the conditions for the use of applications and services. The amendments, if carried, would reverse the principle of end-to-end connectivity which has underpinned not only the Internet, but also European telecommunications policy, to date.' To add to the irony, an accompanying text cuts and pastes from Wikipedia, without attribution."
Bet you're a good old American... no such thing as the Patriot Act.
Gotta love how yank jerks love to poke fun at poms about privacy and lack of rights....
You know what they say, those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Your constitution is not worth the paper it's written on.
I'm all for the UK leaving the EU, since so much of the crap we put up with gets "justified" on the basis that the EU has decided we should have it, when it would be too politially expensive for even the current arrogant administration to push through at home. About the only really worthwhile thing we have had out of the EU in legislative terms is the ECHR via the Human Rights Act, and even that has frequently been a screw-up in practice even if the intent behind it might have been good.
Oh, and I'd like back the huge amount of my hard-earned cash that the government takes from me and gives to the EU to subsidise it as well, please.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
I didn't think they still made Ron Paul Internet Nutjobs.