EU Body Strengthens 'Net Neutrality' Legislation With Release Of Implementation Guidelines

[Lucian Armasu]

BEREC, the agency in charge of regulating the telecommunications industry in the European Union, released its guidelines for how EU member states should implement the net neutrality legislation passed last year.

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[falchard]

Hooray, we get to see what a disaster Net Neutrality will be in Europe before the FCC implements it anyways.

 

[axemastersinc]

We Already Have Net Neutrality. As a result of competition between internet service providers in the marketplace, ISPs generally do not discriminate against highly-trafficked websites. If they did – holding a figurative gun to the head of those websites by throttling back speed to those websites – consumers would dump those ISPs in favor of others. Competition ensures that companies do not have the leverage to discriminate against particular websites.

 

[axemastersinc]

Internet Taxes Could Happen. Harold Furchtgott-Roth of Forbes writes that by making the internet subject to the strictures of the interstate telecommunications industry, the FCC could impose fees on internet service:

By classifying broadband access services as “interstate telecommunications services,” those services would suddenly become required to pay FCC fees. At the current 16.1% fee structure, it would be perhaps the largest, one-time tax increase on the Internet. Get ready for new internet taxes. EU, what a joke.