Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
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Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
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Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#2If you want to save the internet get involved with mesh networks. Emailing or tweeting your politicians is easy to do but pointless.
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#3If you want to save the internet get involved with mesh networks. Emailing or tweeting your politicians is easy to do but pointless.
Calling them is not (which this site apparently enables for free.)
Elected officials generally ignore mass petitions or form emails, but calls show a much higher level of interest. If the barrier to entry is higher than for a "Back in my day Pluto was a planet" Facebook page, representatives know you're serious.
Source: Our team (Seneca Systems) works directly with elected officials on handling constituent requests.
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#4If anyone from the EU does want to take action on this, please remember to contact your own MEPs. This site seems to be advocating calling an MEP at random, or calling any MEP from your own country, but most elected representatives will (and often by convention must) ignore representations from anyone who isn't in their constituency.
Your own representatives should at least acknowledge your communication, and in my experience you'll tend to get a mixed bag with MEPs where some will actually reply substantively but others mostly won't. Please remember to vote accordingly at the next elections as well, because often the MEP elections are considered second tier and don't get as much turn-out even though the elected MEPs wind up having a say on important issues like this one.
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#5If you want to save the internet get involved with mesh networks. Emailing or tweeting your politicians is easy to do but pointless.
Back when the industry tried to push a unified software patentent bill in Europe, I wrote personal (non-stock) e-mails to some members of the EP. Nearly all of them gave non-stock answers and were interested in the arguments that I provided against patents.
Many politicians are willing to listen to their voters, especially if it not a stock e-mail, carefully written, and not rude or threatening (which unfortunately seems to be the norm today).
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#6If anyone from the EU does want to take action on this, please remember to contact your own MEPs. This site seems to be advocating calling an MEP at random, or calling any MEP from your own country, but most elected representatives will (and often by convention must) ignore representations from anyone who isn't in their constituency. Your own representatives should at least acknowledge your communication, and in my e…
MEP as far as i know are a single national constituency, there aren't districts through which they are elected.
So you can pretty much call any MEP in the EU country you live and vote for the EUP in regardless of your nationality.
The "good" thing about the EUP is that it's so powerless that there is very little lobbying which means that MEP's tend to me much more ideological and open to input from anyone rather than their donors and lobby groups.
EDIT: Apparently the constituency segmentation can vary between country and country some use a single constituency some use sub-national segmentation that may or not be in line with local or national elections.
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#7How people generally think of this regulation? Like something positive/desirable or something dangerous?
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#8Is that a good or bad thing in the OPs view?
There are always unintended consequences to legislation
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#9How people generally think of this regulation? Like something positive/desirable or something dangerous?
The whole regulation was undermined from the beginning by financial interests of big corporations and internet providers.
No wonder, when you see, which politicians are in charge.
The EU -- I must regretful say -- is just a dumping place for those politicians, that did already prove in their own country that they are incompetent.
The whole EU is just an invitation for lobbyists to get more pleasant regulations.
In our country, the politicians always say: "Oh, we don't like that regulation, but we have to put it in action, because it comes from the EU" -- of course they say that even, when their own party or even when they themselves have pressured the EU to bring this regulation on it's way. The EU is just a big black box, where any stupid and unwanted (from the voters side) regulation can be brought threw, without putting votes at risk. A perfect system for politicians like we have in Germany, that give themselves a pretty looks, but in reality they just give a sh*t for their own voters. No wonder, we only have such puppets left in Berlin. But maybe, every nation just gets the politicians, it deserves.
Re: Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
#10If anyone from the EU does want to take action on this, please remember to contact your own MEPs. This site seems to be advocating calling an MEP at random, or calling any MEP from your own country, but most elected representatives will (and often by convention must) ignore representations from anyone who isn't in their constituency. Your own representatives should at least acknowledge your communication, and in my e…
MEP as far as i know are a single national constituency, there aren't districts through which they are elected. So you can pretty much call any MEP in the EU country you live and vote for the EUP in regardless of your nationality. The "good" thing about the EUP is that it's so powerless that there is very little lobbying which means that MEP's tend to me much more ideological and open to input from anyone rather than…
It depends on the country you're in. For some EU states the MEPs are elected as a single group. For others there are constituencies within the state and the state's overall group of MEPs is composed of several smaller groups. So what you say is true in some states, but not in others.
Also, MEPs have considerably more practical power since the Lisbon Treaty.