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UK Government Wants To Kill Net Neutrality In EU

Posted by kdawson on from the for-your-own-good dept.

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."

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  1. Access Denied by BountyX · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, you do not have the rights to access and distribute this slashdot comment.

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  2. Re:Pirate Radio one more time around? by fractoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always wondered where the 'pirate' connection with copyright infringement came from. The image of a bunch of geeks with eye patches and cutlasses sailing up and down English coast shouting YARRRR and broadcasting popular music pleases me inordinately.

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  3. Re:thank you sir, may I have another by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny, sounds like we're buying diamonds.
    In Australia every packet is gold plated and cost $150 per gig.

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  4. Re:Another brick by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everyone has something to hide from someone.

    Except boring people with blogs.

  5. Re:British by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fuck off you British tossers. Keep your fucking pound and get the fuck out of the Community.

    Don't insult me. First and foremost I am an English tosser, and proud of it.