{"id":218,"date":"2009-03-25T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-03-26T12:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T12:56:50","slug":"high-noon-for-net-neutrality-eu-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"High Noon for Net Neutrality – EU style"},"content":{"rendered":"

IPIntegrity<\/a> reports that the EU’s “trialogues” – debates between the European Parliament, the European Council\u00a0 and the European Commision are putting the future of the internet at risk: political dealmaking (and the power of the British and the French) risk undermining the current legislation.<\/p>\n

Take a look at some of the proposed changes (excerpted from Monica Horten of IPIntegrity):<\/p>\n

Framework directive Article 8 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Under the European Parliament deal is this\u00a0\u00a0 text stays\u00a0 in <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

European Parliament Art. 8.4 <\/em><\/strong>(fa) applying the principle that end-users<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

should be able to access and distribute<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

any lawful content and use any lawful<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

applications and\/or services of their<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

choice;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

if it\u00a0 agrees to\u00a0 this text: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Council:Art. 8.2 <\/em><\/strong>(b) ensuring that there is no distortion<\/span><\/p>\n

or restriction of competition in the<\/span><\/p>\n

electronic communications sector, with<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

particular attention to the provision of<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

wholesale services,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

instead of this text: <\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/span>b) <\/span><\/em><\/strong>ensuring that there is no<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

distortion or restriction of competition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

in the electronic communications sector,<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

in particular for the delivery of and<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

access to content and services across all<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

networks;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

The alternative is you get this text: ( which removes users right to distribute information – a fundamental right under EU law). <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Council Art 8.4 <\/span><\/em><\/strong>(g) applying the principle that endusers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

should be able to access <\/strong>and<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

distribute<\/span> <\/strong>information or run<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

applications and services of their choice.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

I just delivered a paper<\/a> in which I argued that the EU treatment of net neutrality was not *too* bad, Not encouraging news for those interested in a free and open net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IPIntegrity reports that the EU’s “trialogues” – debates between the European Parliament, the European Council\u00a0 and the European Commision are putting the future of the internet at risk: political dealmaking (and the power of the British and the French) risk undermining the current legislation. Take a look at some of the proposed changes (excerpted from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oii","category-policy","tag-add-new-tag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-3w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}