TatteredHat
Member
On Tuesday afternoon, the European Parliament voted against all amendments to a package on the European single market for electronic communications raising fears among activists, tech companies, and NGOs that the proposals as they currently stand fail to properly protect net neutrality.
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The proposals ostensibly uphold the net neutral principle, but internet activists are concerned that they contain multiple loopholes, and do no such thing.
There is a provision that allows for preferential treatment for "specialised services," for example. This might be used for self-driving vehicles or medical data, but there are fears that this exemption is too broadly defined, and may be abused.
For more information the source article can be found here:
The European Parliament just dealt a major blow to net neutrality
In an effort to implement Net Neutrality, the EU Parliament has managed to do the exact opposite by not clarifying the wording of certain parts of the agreement, the amendments asked to clarify and close these potential loopholes.
All of the amendments were rejected and the Net Neutrality proposal was accepted as is, potentially leaving ISP free to offer zero rating on certain types of traffic and throttle traffic in anticipation of congestion.
It's even worse for countries in the EU (such as my own, The Netherlands) where their own stricter Net Neutrality regulations are now overruled by the ones proposed by the EU, although (and I am not sure about this) it might be possible to implement additional regulations on top of the ones set by the EU.