[P2P-F] Fwd: Please save the Internet

Wed Feb 19 02:47:50 CET 2014

You can post to Parliamentarians :

http://savetheinternet.eu/

http://savetheinternet.eu/#act

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-parliament-negotiations-on-net-neutrality-taking-a-disastrous-turn

especially the Italian and Greek MEP's who may be moving in a direction of
limiting internet neutrality ?

Example of email sent ( feel free to copy, and repost, while signing with
your own name at the end of the message )

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:41 AM
Subject: Please save the Internet
To: dimitrios.droutsas at europarl.europa.eu

Dear Dimitrios Droutsas,

The decisions that you and your colleagues will make this week will have a
lasting impact on the open internet in Europe. It's critical to get this
right and not accept bad compromises.

The Commission's current proposal on a "Telecoms Single Market" includes
provisions undermining network neutrality by permitting pervasive networks
discrimination, to the detriment of user rights and the single market.

As a first step, ITRE members must remove the current definition of
"specialized services", closing a dangerous loophole that would create a
two-tiered internet, strangling online innovation, competition, diversity,
and the exercise of human rights on the internet.

I urge you to adopt the robust definition of "network neutrality" put
forward by the CULT committee, one that ensures that internet providers do
not block or discriminate against content, websites, applications, or
services; that online innovation isn't stifled; that anti-competitive
practices don't flourish.

Finally, while some progress in the ITRE Committee has been made, it is
critical that members stand their ground and address the remaining
problematic issues in the Rapporteur's compromise amendments. A compromise
that allows a few loopholes that destroy the open internet instead of many
loopholes that would destroy the open internet is not an acceptable
compromise.

Sincerely,
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