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EU Wants To Enshrine Network Neutrality In Law

Posted by Soulskill on from the after-that-see-if-you-can-make-watching-game-of-thrones-easier dept.

Bismillah writes "Following the example of the Dutch, who enacted laws supporting network neutrality, the European Union is now looking at doing the same. They are pushing for an end to the throttling and blocking of services such as Skype and Whatsapp by providers hoping to drive users to their own competing services. The EU also wants a service transparency requirement for ISPs, so people know what they're buying — like minimum speed. It'll be interesting to see how this pans out."

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  1. Democratic Europe, plutocratic America. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looks like Europeans are caring more about their freedoms than Americans.

    1. Re:Democratic Europe, plutocratic America. by prefec2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That only looks that way, because the grass is greener on the other side. In Germany, one of the bigger EU countries, the German Telekom (former national telecommunication corporation) want to shape traffic for non-Telekom media products by 2016. The German government said: 'That is bad!' But they do not try to stop the Telekom from doing so. Sometimes there is only hope in the EU. And that is a rather strange feeling.

  2. Hypocrites by Brusco · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let them first stop censoring the internet.