Blackout Europe

[Oreo]

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Don't let this happen, read the site, and take action.

I for one, will not let my ISP choose what the heck they want me to use my internet for. I am paying for a service, not paying to be told what I can and cannot do.

Under the proposed new rules, broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of websites you can look at, and to tell you whether or not you are allowed to use particular services. It will be dressed up as ‘new consumer options' which people can choose from. People will be offered TV-like packages - with a limited
number of options for you to access.

It means that the Internet will be packaged up and your ability to access and to put up content could be severely restricted. It will create boxes of Internet accessibility, which don't fit with the way we use it today. This is because internet is now permitting exchanges between persons which cannot be controlled or "facilitated" by any middlemen (the state or a corporation) and this possibility improves the citizen's life but force the industry to lose power and control. that's why they are pushing governments to act those changes.

The excuse is to control the flow of music, films and entertainment content against the alleged piracy by downloading for free, using P2P file-sharing. However, the real victims of this plan will be all Internet users and the democratic and independent access to information, culture goods.

 

[saltynay]

I am fairly sure its just a website looking to start an argument. How does this bill give the ISPs powers that they don't already have?

They can impose bandwidth caps.
They can throttle & indeed block certain types of connections (P2P etc.)
They can block access to certain websites (notably child porn)

 

[Oreo]

They will offer you internet as a TV type package, such as:

Package one: "Access to news and media sites"
Package two: "Access to gameing sites"

Etc, and they have the ability to totally block any site they want, restrict access at certain times. They are not allowed to do this at the moment, only illegal sites.

Do you want this ? The internet is so great because you can surf for anything, do anything whenever you want.

And yes, it's most certainly real. The internet is the only thing not government controlled at the moment, if it becomes that way, it will become just as linear, standardized and biased as the media and TV.

 

[saltynay]

Your forgetting human ingenuity look at the great firewall of China with some searching you can easily find ways around anything.....

Also if this was a legit proposal then they would of mentioned what designation number the policy has.... All they mention is that the policy will be in the EU parliament at the 5th of May but if you then click on the "why act link" it says voting was in march, so we are already too late.

 

[Kharn]

There is no technical way of enforcing this, so they wont do it they might want to have such a option but technicaly they wont do it as the smaller companies will say "Sorry we provided unlimited internet" besides this is anti competitive and will be tossed out the moment anything like this comes close.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

I am fairly sure its just a website looking to start an argument. How does this bill give the ISPs powers that they don't already have?

They can impose bandwidth caps.
They can throttle & indeed block certain types of connections (P2P etc.)
They can block access to certain websites (notably child porn)

The FCC here in America ruled against Comcast cable when it was found out that they was throttling peoples connections to a barely usable point when they saw p2p/bit torrent traffic. Here, so far, no one can legally block any connection, or disconnect you as long as you hold a contract with the ISP and pay your bills, it was also discovered that Comcast would disconnect people seeding and leaching from the internet, which again the FCC said, screw you, you can't do that.

 

[Oreo]

Well here's hoping you're all right

 

[Harper]

Some thing like that will not go ahead. Seriously, it the ISP start promoting themselves like some sort of Cable TV package, people will just go elsewhere.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Lägg till 138:an i telekompaketet, annars...

 

[stb1swat]

Its not as bad as Mexico's socialist ISPs! lol