[IRPCoalition] Net neutrality case in Slovenia

[parminder]

On Sunday 25 January 2015 05:03 AM, chaals at yandex-team.ru wrote:
> On the other hand, it seems that if they were offering wikipedia, international human rights information and legal assistance websites for free, even though you have to pay for other stuff, that might also be ruled illegal.

Such activities have to protected by rules of protective 
discrimination... Like social discrimination is illegal, but certain 
kinds and classes of 'protective discrimination' are not only allowed 
but often sanctioned by law..

And this first of all requires to stop seeing the Internet from a 
technical lens and see it in terms of social policy - and bring the 
latter's philosophy, paradigms and the rest of the lower level 
constructs to it...

parminder
>
> That would be an example of "unintended conseuqences".
>
> Or is there some reason why it doesn't happen that way?
>
> cheers
>
> 24.01.2015, 07:30, "Mitar" <mmitar at gmail.com>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> In Slovenia we have net neutrality law. And our FCC has just made a
>> judgement that our ISPs have been breaking it by offering their own
>> mobile services like Spotify, DropBox and Netflix clones for free (for
>> other services you have to pay for mobile Internet data usage, but
>> theirs you could use for free). This is a great example how ISPs can
>> misuse their position to have an advantage over other services. This
>> is why net neutrality is important.
>>
>> http://www.delo.si/znanje/infoteh/akos-razsodil-telekom-slovenije-in-simobil-krsita-nevtralnost-interneta.html
>>
>> Mitar
>>
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