Network Neutrality Is Law In Chile

An anonymous reader writes "Chile is the first country of the world to guarantee by law the principle of network neutrality, according to the Teleccomunications Market Comission's Blog from Spain. The official newspaper of the Chilean Republic published yesterday a Law that guarantees that any Internet user will be able to use, send, receive or offer any content, applications or legal services over the Internet, without arbitrary or discriminatory blocking."

Comments

Safe Haven?

[kachakaach]

So servers for spammers, hackers, torrents, porn, & gambling sites all have safe haven in Chile now?

key word: "blocking"

[Michael D Kristopeit]

without arbitrary or discriminatory blocking.

delaying a packet in a queue is not blocking the packet... so the law is pointless. deciding now much delay is effectively a block would itself be arbitrary. packet prioritization with some level of latency is still inevitable.

stop using the phrase "network neutrality"... it no longer means anything.

Re:If Chile can do it, why can't we do it?

[microbox]

ARE THE PROBLEM

How are they the problem again? Oh, that's right, it's because it's typed in all-caps.

Yet another vacuous statement on government regulation from a conservative "not" job.

Yes, really

[SuperKendall]

You seem to forgotten that there was a lot of complaining and a lot of people finding no competition to turn to and then the FCC smacked Comcast for throttling torrents.

But Comcast isn't doing it anymore. End of story.

Yes there is currently some regulation in the market - and that worked (although the customer complaints alone might have given enough time).

Basically, you have just argued that the regulation we have in place is enough, and we need no more. And with that, I agree.

In other words, exactly the opposite of what you said.

Since you just supported my position I'm not sure how that's so. Net Neutrality is a bad idea that is not needed, existing market forces and regulation seem to be doing the job just fine.

Inadvertently you also pointed out the regulation we have would not be needed if other regulations were not in place enforcing Comcast in a monopoly in so many communities (you said the problem was people had no other ISP to turn to)... and you want MORE regulation? Pile on the bandages enough and in the end you have only a mummified husk instead of a market.

In your own words - Really?

Re:A Law That Guarantees

[guruevi]

It makes me feel sad that there are about 250M miseducated people roaming this world and they're not in a typical 3rd world country, they're what some people would called an advanced world power. That's a serious problem in education brought by socialized nationalism.

BTW: North America (what US-ians call America) also includes Canada and Alaska, Canada being a territory of the British and Alaska until the '50's being a territory of the US and in the 1800's being a part of Russia.