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<div class="ask">Ask your European parliamentarians to defend their decision from 2014 to save the Internet!</div>
<div class="ask">Ask your European parliamentarians to confirm their decision from 2014 to save the Internet!</div>
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<h4>You could Pay More for Less Internet</h4>
<p>The European Commission and Council want to adopt a regulation that would allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to discriminate between different types of customers and different types of online content, in order to charge extra for most different types of online services. Only those who pay more would have easy access to an audience online – killing the openness that drives the Internet's social and economic success. </p>
<p>The European Commission and Council want to adopt a regulation that could allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to discriminate between different types of customers and different types of online content, in order to charge extra for most types of online services. Only those who pay more would have easy access to the Internet – killing the openness that drives the Internet's social and economic success.</p>
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<h4>freedom of speech may be lost</h4>
<p>Even though the Parliament previously insisted on respect for the rule of law and opposed arbitrary censorship, the compromise text is not clear enough and has no obvious meaning in this regard, failing to effectively protect Internet users from censorship. The text was proposed by the UK as a means of creating confusion, allowing Britain's arbitrary, unaccountable, counterproductive Internet blocking and filtering to continue. Such power in hands of private companies would greatly damage our freedom of expression onlineand endangers freedom of speech and the rule of law across Europe, if accepted in this regulation.</p>
<h4>Freedom of speech may be lost</h4>
<p>Even though the Parliament previously insisted on respect for the rule of law and opposed arbitrary censorship, the compromise text has no obvious meaning in this regard, failing to effectively protect Internet users from censorship. The text was proposed by the UK as a means of creating confusion, allowing Britain's arbitrary, unaccountable, counterproductive Internet blocking and filtering to continue. Such power in hands of private companies would greatly damage our freedom of expression onlineand endangers freedom of speech and the rule of law across Europe, if accepted in this regulation.</p>
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<h4>surcharge for Innovation</h4>
<p>The diversity and innovative capacity of the Internet depends upon its openness and neutrality. This risks being dramatically undermined if the passages of the regulation about specialised services, class based traffic management and the practice of zero-rating are not improved. We have to protect the neutral infrastructure of the Internet from discriminatory business models that try to make money with scarcity or by allowing Internet service providers to decide who gets access to their customers and under what conditions.</p>
<h4>Surcharge fee for Innovation</h4>
<p>The diversity and innovative capacity of the Internet depends upon its openness and neutrality. This risks being dramatically undermined if the regulation does not outlaw discriminatory specialised services, class based traffic management and the practice of zero-rating. We have to protect the neutral infrastructure of the Internet from discriminatory business models that try to make money with scarcity. The creation of a new monopoly allowing Internet service providers to decide who gets access to their customers and under what conditions must be prevented.</p>
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<h4 id="why">Now is the time to fix the regulation, bring clarity to the text and ensure that network discrimination will not be permitted in the EU.</h4>
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<h3>What is happening?</h3>
<h3>What has happened since 2014?</h3>
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In negotiations with the EU Member States and the European Commission, representatives of the Parliament accepted a compromise text whose lack of clarity could be used by regulators to permit network discrimination. Unless the text is changed by the Parliament, it will be up to unelected regulators and the European Commission (that opposes net neutrality) to give meaning to the compromise text, in the months after the Parliament's vote.
In negotiations with the EU Member States and the European Commission, representatives of the Parliament accepted a compromise text whose lack of clarity could be used by regulators to permit network discrimination. Unless the text is amended by the Parliament, it will be up to regulators and the European Commission - that did not stand for net neutrality - to give meaning to the compromise text, in the months after the Parliament's vote.
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On 3rd April 2014, the European Parliament voted in favour of clear and binding rules for net neutrality. This victory was yours since many of you contacted MEPs to ask them to take a stand for the free and open Internet.
On 3rd April 2014, the European Parliament voted in favour of clear and binding rules for net neutrality. This victory was yours since many of you contacted MEPs to ask them to take a stand for the free and open Internet.
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After months of delay and negotiations, on 30th June 2015, the EU institutions agreed on an incoherent, unclear text that leaves it to regulators and the European Commission to decide whether net neutrality will be protected or not. They could interpret the text in ways that allow for paid fast-lanes, kill the best effort Internet in the EU, and authorise illegal, arbitrary blocking of online content.
After months of delay and negotiations, on 30th June 2015, the EU institutions agreed on an incoherent, unclear text that leaves it to regulators and the European Commission to decide whether net neutrality will be protected or not. They could interpret the text in ways that allow for paid fast-lanes and kill the best effort Internet in the EU.
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Now we have one last chance to repair this dangerous and ambiguous text in the Plenary vote in the European Parliament this autumn. Now is the time to contact your MEP and tell them to stand by their decision from April 2014 and not to let big telecoms companies destroy your freedoms online. The battle over the Internet in Europe is on!
Now; we have one last chance to repair this dangerous and ambiguous text during the Plenary vote in the European Parliament in October 28. Now is the time to contact your MEP and tell them to stand by their decision from April 2014 and not to let big telecoms companies destroy your freedoms online. The battle over the Internet in Europe is on!
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Net neutrality is the founding principle of the Internet. It guarantees that all data packets are treated equally. This principle guarantees that the Internet will remain diverse, innovative, and free. Telecoms companies want to change that. They want to establish new business models based on discrimination and restrictions. We cannot give up the economic and social value of the Internet just to help the short-term plans of a handful of companies to make more money.
Net neutrality is the founding principle of the Internet. It guarantees that all data packets are treated equally. This principle guarantees that the Internet will remain diverse, innovative, and free. Telecoms companies want to change that. They want to establish new business models based on discrimination and restrictions. We cannot give up the economic and social value of the Internet just to help the short-term plans of a handful of companies to make more money.
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<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#555558">We need your help</span> to prompt Parliamentarians to protect the open and neutral Internet - ask them to protect network neutrality!
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<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#555558"><a href="/background/#trialogues">What are the trialogues?</a></span>
<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#555558">We need your help</span> to prompt Parliamentarians to protect the open and neutral Internet - ask them to protect network neutrality!
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<h5>Fax</h5>
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With our <a href="#act">Fax Tool</a> you can send your message to a
Member of the European Parliament (MEP). It will be received electronically in the office of your representative. It is important that you personalize your message. Everything that we
write about e-mails also applies to fax.
With our <a href="#act">Fax Tool</a> you can send your message to a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). It will be received electronically in the office of your representative. It is important that you personalize your message. Everything that we write about e-mails also applies to fax.
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