Netherlands Cements Net Neutrality In Law 115
Fluffeh writes "A while back, Dutch Telcos started to sing the 'We are losing money due to internet services!' song and floated new plans that would make consumers pay extra for data used by apps that conflicted with their own services — apps like Skype, for example. The politicians stepped in, however, and wrote laws forbidding this. Now, the legislation has finally passed through the Senate and the Netherlands is an officially Net Neutral country, the second in the world — Chile did this a while back."
Too bad (Score:5, Insightful)
incomplete article. (Score:1, Insightful)
A day after this was announced all Dutch ISPs were ordered to block TPB.
http://torrentfreak.com/five-more-dutch-isps-given-10-days-to-censor-the-pirate-bay-120510/
The US isn't the only country that is getting destroyed by lobbyists and religious nutjobs.
Didn't stop net censorship. (Score:5, Insightful)
Net neutrality is a great step, but on the same day a judge ordered all ISPs in the Netherlands to block the Pirate Bay. You win some you lose some.
Re:Too bad (Score:3, Insightful)
everywhere but the Netherlands and Chile
Special 301 Report (Score:0, Insightful)
Special 301 Report welcomes Netherlands!
Re:Too bad (Score:2, Insightful)
Does the net need a nanny state (so called)? I dunno, ask Comcast who slows connections to Netflix and torrents. Ask Comcast again, who do not throttle their own streaming service. Ask the cable channels who withhold streaming content to try and force cable subscriptions that people do not want. Ask the government who want unfettered access to everything you do online and will probably willingly sell that information to the highest bidder.
Yeah, we need net neutrality, or your idea of a "nanny state". Because not all regulation IS nanny stating, you've just been convinced by Fox News that it is so they can participate in these exact kinds of things with everyone else.
Re:Too bad (Score:2, Insightful)
The Nanny State? Parroting a-holes use that word.
The Dutch Nanny State happened to be the one that for a large part co-provided all the infrastructure most telco's use. And then it just had to be privatized for no other reason other then trying to force a failing market system.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
This is challenged (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:Too bad (Score:5, Insightful)