[IRP] We Must Protect Net Neutrality in Europe! - Open letter to the European Parliament

[Katitza Rodriguez]

I fully agreed with your comments.

Katitza

On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Meryem Marzouki wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have absolutely no intention to oppose the signature of this text  
> in case there is a consensus on this, but I would never sign a  
> statement stating: "Except in some authoritarian regimes, everyone  
> around the globe has access to the same Internet, and even the  
> smallest entrepreneurs are on equal footing with the leading global  
> enterprises." That is simply not true.
>
> Not to mention the confusion between content filtering and blocking  
> for the purpose of censorship and content discrimination or  
> information prioritization for economic and financial purposes,  
> while at the same time the statement only identifies as threat  
> "telecom operators and content industries that see business  
> opportunities in discriminating, filtering or prioritizing  
> information flowing through the network".
>
> Best,
> Meryem
>
> Le 18 sept. 09 ? 16:42, Max Senges a ?crit :
>
>> Hi folks
>>
>> I believe it would be a good idea for us to sign the appeal of "La  
>> Quadrature du Net": "We Must Protect Net Neutrality1 in Europe!  
>> Organizations from all around Europe share their concern of seeing  
>> Net Neutrality being sacrificed during the conciliation procedure  
>> of the directives of the EU Telecoms Package. They sent this letter  
>> to the Members of the European Parliament, urging them to take  
>> decisive action in order to guarantee a free, open and innovative  
>> Internet, and to safeguard the fundamental freedoms of European  
>> citizens."
>>
>> http://www.laquadrature.net/en/we-must-protect-net-neutrality-in-europe-open-letter-to-the-european-parliament
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Best
>> Max
>>
>> PS: Will work on the weekend to provide minutes from the workshop &  
>> (hopefully) KICK OFF THE COLLABOWRITING of the CHARTER of HUMAN  
>> RIGHTS and PRINCIPLES on the INTERNET
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