Topic: WEB - on July 16, 2016 at 6:03:00 PM CEST
2 Days to Save the Open Internet in Europe: An Open Letter
We have four days to save the open Internet in Europe By Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Lawrence Lessig, and Professor Barbara van Schewick Network neutrality for hundreds of millions of Europeans is within our grasp. Securing this is essential to preserve the open Internet as a driver for economic growth and social progress. But the public needs to tell regulators now to strengthen safeguards, and not cave in to telecommunications carriers’ manipulative tactics. We are so close. In October, the European Parliament voted on network neutrality rules for the European Union. Now regulators are writing guidelines to determine how the law will be applied in practice. These guidelines could secure net neutrality in Europe – if regulators use them to close potential loopholes in the law.
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