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Netherlands Cements Net Neutrality In Law
Fluffeh writes "A while back, Dutch Telcos started to sing the 'We are losing money due to internet services!' song and floated new plans that would make consumers pay extra for data used by apps that conflicted with their own services — apps like Skype, for example. The politicians stepped in, however, and wrote laws forbidding this. Now, the legislation has finally passed through the Senate and the Netherlands is an officially Net Neutral country, the second in the world — Chile did this a while back."
Well, as I was told: Coffeeshop (one word) is a place where one can buy and use cannabis products, a coffee shop (two words) is a place where coffee is sold. A bar needs a licence to sell alcohol, and that licence can be revoked if anything else is sold there.
Coffee shops were already around in 1968, when the first coffeeshop opened. So the coffeeshop was at first a place where one could buy a cup of coffee (like at *bucks) and some "other products" without the owner having to worry about his licence that might be revoked. He might get punished put at least his main source of income will not be in jeopardy.
Actually cannabis is an illegal substance in the Netherlands, which is tolerated, but not legal. But that is a different story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_coffee_shop
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