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."

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The UK is also banning people from their country because of their opinion: Dutch anti-Islam MP barred from UK.
The man banned is an elected parliamentarian with strong views from the Netherlands. He was banned because his presence would pose a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society". All he would be doing would be showing a film. In this film, he makes the claim that the Kuran incites violence. A very obvious claim given the clear text in the book.