UK Government Wants to Kill Net Neutrality in EU

[DaBees-Knees]

http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=272&Itemid=9

UK filters in the Wikpedia amendments

The UK government wants to cut out users rights to access Internet content, applications and services. Some of the information used to justify the change has been cut and pasted from the Wikipedia. Amendments to the Telecoms Package circulated in Brussels by the UK government, seek to cross out users' rights to access and distribute Internet content and services. And they want to  replace it with a ‘principle'  that users can be told not only the conditions for access, but also the conditions for the  use  of applications  and services. The UK government texts have been heavily criticised by  the French campaigning group La Quadrature du Net . It is believed  that they could have been  drawn up by the UK regulator, Ofcom. The amendments have also appeared in a set of compromise proposals put forward by the Czech Presidency for the Universal Services Directive (Harbour report). 

The proposed amendments  cut out completely any users' rights to do with content - whether accessing or distributing -  which would appear to be in  breach of the European Charter of  Fundamental rights, Article 10. The Charter  states that everyone has the right "to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers." In the digital age, the Internet, and the associated applications and services provided by the World Wide Web, is the means by which people exercise that right.

(The original article (link above) is very long and extends to many pages. I have edited it.)

If this is true, let's hope wiser heads prevail as this would be the death knell of p2p.

[White Stripes]

death knell of p2p in the EU (or just the uk since the uk isnt -really- completely part of the EU).. it'll go on elsewhere....

whats with the UK government? why is it there has to be 'that one government' on this planet that has to be an ass? the US shot itself in the economic, civil liberties, and foreign policy foot for 8 years and is trying to recover.... and now the UK turns "bush" on the world...

[Cobra]

The difference is that some people agreed with Bush for a while!

DVD's are already often edited from their previous conception on film before being sold in the UK because of the government. I just take this as just another step in that direction.

[White Stripes]

DVD's are already often edited from their previous conception on film before being sold in the UK because of the government. I just take this as just another step in that direction.

you're kidding........ right?

[Cobra]

No, I'm not. There are certain things that you will usually not find in an Region 2 (which covers the UK as well as other areas) release of a movie that were found in the original.

The one scene that comes to mind right off are head butts.