[pp.int.general] Regulation (Amelia Andersdotter)

[erik ernst]

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> I've argued recently that Swedish conservatives believe competition is a
> good solution for the net neutrality issue (instead of hard law) which i
> can
> see as being reasonably feasible provided you have a good, competetive
> market to begin with. However, Spanish Telefonica is a perfect example of
> dysfunctional competition on the telecoms market, which means Swedish
> debaters are actually unknowledgeable and unable to globalise their
> thinking
> for all their fancy talking about european integration. what is worse is,
> bad business practises from other parts of europe may also sneak in through
> the "back door" if we don't create a strong user-friendly regulation on EU
> level.
>
> Catch what I' getting at?
>
> Amelia Andersdotter
> Kommunikationansvarig UPF
> Lissabon-MEP
> +46 738436779
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Not sure I understand you correctly, are you saying, that in order for the
internet to remain neutral, we should ask our politicians to regulate it?

In my opinion, any regulatory filtering, blocking and control of traffic on
the Internet, is destructive to the free exchange of information and
undermines users privacy. Moreover, it would most likely result in a
stagnation of the the development of new and more intelligent network
services. Another argument could be, that no matter how much money we waste
on "securing" the Internet traffic from unwanted traffic, whether we divide
it in Internet 1, 2 or 3, it is physically impossible to controle
communication between users of private networks. New free networks will
emerge, and we can then start over again.

Since it proved impossible for the state to control the internet physically,
the politicians last hope is to control it from a moral standpoint. The last
desperate remedy is always fear. If any state can convince us that we are
not in control and that we need a mother and father to protect ourselves, a
moral barrier to our communication can be created, in cases where a physical
barrier fails.

If we are stupid enough to give politicians the moral right to control the
global communications, then we certainly deserve to be sent back to the dark
ages of communication from whence we came.

Anyway, that was a private opinion:)

Love
Erik Ernst - PPDK
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