Posted on 09/15/2020 9:58:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Union’s highest court has given its support to the bloc’s rules that stop internet providers from charging customers for preferential access to their networks. […]
The rules require telecommunications providers to treat all data traffic the same, and prevent them from reserving better access for their own services, or selling bandwidth to big companies like Google and Netflix while leaving a slower Internet for everyone else.
The Luxembourg-based court backed the principle of an open internet after Hungarian wireless carrier Telenor Magyarorszag had sought an interpretation of the rules. Hungarian regulators had stopped the company from offering two “zero tariff” packages under which data traffic used by some applications and services didn’t count but traffic for others was slowed or blocked. …
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NO CONTENT MUST BE BLOCKED - except hate speech and right wing talking points and any discussion that the state declares is misinformation.
As they used to say, “You get what you pay for.”
Not anymore.
This is NOT the real goal of “Net Neutrality”
It is to setup internet monitoring for the purpose of attacking those who don’t obey.
Two years ago when I said this, most of use wouldn’t have believed it.
Its here NOW.
Yes; even though our so-called net neutrality rules were gone by 2017, it crept back over from overseas.
I just can’t believe people would be opposed to someone being able to pay more to get better service.
It’s plain old capitalism the Net Neutralizers are opposed to.
“The rules require telecommunications providers to treat all data traffic the same, and prevent them from reserving better access for their own services, or selling bandwidth to big companies like Google and Netflix while leaving a slower Internet for everyone else. “
fine. the EU is just cutting their own throats ... just as socialism ALWAYS makes everyone equally poor (Politburo excepted), “equality” of bandwidth gives everyone equally slow service ...
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