[pp.int.general] Fwd: [face] URGENT - Call for signatures - Open Letter for Net Neutrality

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> Subject: [face] URGENT - Call for signatures - Open Letter for Net  
> Neutrality
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> Hello everyone!
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> After a lengthy iterative process, we included many observations in  
> what
> we consider a final version of the following open letter :
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> http://www.co-ment.net/text/1534/
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> Any "important" NGO or company who would like to sign it should send  
> an
> email to signature at laquadrature.net (before wednesday evening).
>
> - From then :
>
> - - We will publish it with a first round of signatories, send it to  
> the
> MEPs and to the media on thursday morning.
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> - - Then we will open a broader signature process, with a web form,  
> so we
> can try to gather a big number of supports.
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> I am available to answer any of your questions.
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> We Must Protect Net Neutrality in Europe!
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> Open letter to the European Parliament.
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>
> (To co-sign this letter as an NGO or company, send an email to
> signature at laquadrature.net)
>
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> Net neutrality has been an indispensable catalyst of competition,
> innovation, and fundamental freedoms in the digital environment. A
> neutral Internet ensures that users face no conditions limiting access
> to applications and services. Likewise, it rules out any  
> discrimination
> against the source, destination or actual content of the information
> transmitted over the network.
>
> Thanks to this principle, our society collectively built the  
> Internet as
> we know it today. Except in some authoritarian regimes, everyone  
> around
> the globe has access to the same Internet, and even the smallest
> entrepreneurs are on equal footing with the leading global  
> enterprises.
> Moreover, Net neutrality stimulates the virtuous circle of a  
> development
> model based on the growth of a common communication network that  
> enables
> new uses and tools, as opposed to one relying on investments in
> filtering and controlling. Only under such conditions is Internet
> continuously improving our societies, enhancing freedom -- including  
> the
> freedom of expression and communication -- and allowing for more
> efficient and creative markets.
>
> However, Net neutrality is now under the threat of telecom operators  
> and
> content industries that see business opportunities in discriminating,
> filtering or prioritizing information flowing through the network. All
> around Europe, this kind of discriminatory practices, detrimental to
> both consumers and innovation, is emerging. No court or regulator  
> seems
> to have adequate tools to counter these behaviors and preserve the
> general interest. Some dispositions introduced in the Telecoms Package
> could even encourage such practices.
>
> We who have signed this open letter urge the European Parliament to
> protect the freedom to receive and distribute content, and to use
> services and applications without interference from private actors. We
> call on the Members of the Parliament to take decisive action during  
> the
> ongoing negotiation of the Telecoms Package in order to guarantee a
> free, open and innovative Internet, and to safeguard the fundamental
> freedoms of European citizens.
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