Re:EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations on EU Copyright Directive
by latexr on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:44PM
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> At least there seems to be no internet disaster as of now?
Are you saying there’s no disaster in general?
Haven’t EU Net Neutrality laws taken a huge hit recently? In Portugal, every major telecom now has zero-rating plans. It’s so prevalent, it’s the example image given on the Wikipedia page![1] Portugal is also one of the leaders in site blocking.[2] It requires no judicial order, which as expected leads to legitimate sites being blocked as well.
So I wouldn’t agree there haven’t been any disasters, just that they haven’t been felt hard enough. Nobody cares about small Portugal, and citizens will take any bad rules (no net neutrality) if they get their “fix” in return (use facebook without worrying about going over the data plan, which by the way is inferior to other EU countries).
Are you saying there’s no disaster in general?
Haven’t EU Net Neutrality laws taken a huge hit recently? In Portugal, every major telecom now has zero-rating plans. It’s so prevalent, it’s the example image given on the Wikipedia page![1] Portugal is also one of the leaders in site blocking.[2] It requires no judicial order, which as expected leads to legitimate sites being blocked as well.
So I wouldn’t agree there haven’t been any disasters, just that they haven’t been felt hard enough. Nobody cares about small Portugal, and citizens will take any bad rules (no net neutrality) if they get their “fix” in return (use facebook without worrying about going over the data plan, which by the way is inferior to other EU countries).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating
[2]: https://torrentfreak.com/portugal-blocks-330-pirate-sites-in...