European Parliament passes net neutrality law
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#3It never stops to amaze me - what does have Europe that other places don't?
...anyway, I'm just glad and thankful to be born in Europe!
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#4> Providers of internet access to end-users shall not discriminate between functionally equivalent services and applications.
This means they can still throttle torrents, right?
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#5These are great news, I am a big supporter for net neutrality, however I am a bit concerned about one small detail:
>“Net neutrality” means the principle according to which all internet traffic is treated equally, without discrimination, restriction or interference, independently of its sender, recipient, type, content, device, service or application.
I wonder how this will work in case of malicious attacks, ddos, disruptive requests and packets/connections with the sole purpose of disrupting the normal usage of the net. Blocking these at isp level is not a bad idea, but how deep does this rabbit hole go?
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#6> Providers of internet access to end-users shall not discriminate between functionally equivalent services and applications. This means they can still throttle torrents, right?
Well, based on that quote they can throttle what they want - but they have to do it equally across all similar applications. So for example they can't throttle Youtube and not throttle Netflix - they have to throttle both (or neither).
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#7From first reading, this makes it look as if ISPs will be unable to offer eg elevated weighting to specific VoIP traffic unless that's offered by the ISP themselves. I want my VoIP trunks to my exchange to have better QoS than my Skype chats.
I'm not convinced this is a good thing.
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#8> Providers of internet access to end-users shall not discriminate between functionally equivalent services and applications. This means they can still throttle torrents, right?
Well, based on that quote they can throttle what they want - but they have to do it equally across all similar applications. So for example they can't throttle Youtube and not throttle Netflix - they have to throttle both (or neither).
Well, that depends on your interpretation of "functionally equivalent". Is Youtube functionally equivalent with Netflix?
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#9I think the EU is getting an amazing amount of work done, if you consider that it consists of 28 nation states which went to war with each other regularly for centuries up to a couple of decades ago...
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#10This will end in tragedy for consumers (and profit in the right pockets), as do all attempts by governments to regulate.
"Introduced by socialists, green and left blocs" -- an immediate huge red flag.
The days of EU internet freedom are coming to an end, once these people start meddling in.