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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by bazzargh on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:02AM (#8268273)
But we have had this battle in the UK, and not just with BT. Most of the ISPs have at some point or other been accused of throttling BBC's iPlayer: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/02/why-bts-not-the-bigg...

The UK government was against Net Neutrality legislation: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2010/11/17/uk-government-su...

And again in 2011: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/ed-vaizey%E2%80%99...

This eventually led to consultation in 2012 by Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner for Competition, and we got legislation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26865869

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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by rmc on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:26AM (#8268406)
The EU is great for making member states do the right thing.
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by mercurial on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:52AM (#8268590)
Sometimes. Speaking of which, I don't know how the net neutrality legislation is progressing with the EU commission.
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by KaiserPro on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:32AM (#8268449)
This is true, but then now you have adverts saying specifically that "we don't throttle"
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