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Christopher T. Marsden
Net Neutrality: towards a co-regulatory solution?
Bloomsbury Academic, 2010
Marsden's account of net neutrality and EU telecommunications law takes us up to and including the Second Reading of the Telecoms Package.
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Monica Horten reports that AT&T led this effort, that the economists’ studies predicting negative impacts of net neutrality was highlighted and that the rejected First Reading amendments were reworked as ‘compromises’ for the Second Reading, placing responsibility on ISPs only to report (self-regulated) restrictions on service:
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Horten explains that the intention of the Council was to weaken, if not to remove, Amendment 138/46:
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The Internet’s core values of openness and democracy have been established by accident and design. Horten states: By authorizing blocking practices, the Telecoms Package puts Europe on a path to a closed series of Internets. It puts at risk innovation, trade, and any policy goals to encourage cross-border trade. It puts at risk the European Union’s Information Society goals. And, it stands to chill democratic speech.
IPtegrity commentary
- EU law set for new course on child online safety
- MEPs reach political agreement to protect children and privacy
- UK border safety alert - mind the capability gap
- What? Will UK government ignore security as it walks away from EU?
- Betting on a costly space race: MPs probe OneWeb satellite deal
- Disrupting supply chains: how leaving the Single Market means systemic breakdown
- Big tech and anti-trust: an ill-fitting suit?
- Schrems ruling puts a spoke in UK data flows from 2021
- Digital rights - why they matter in a time of coronavirus
- EU upload filter - Germany's crucial deciding vote
- Copyright Directive upload filter - why EU Council should block it
- Data and Brexit - a mis-calculation?
- EU lawmakers seek to protect free speech in online content rules
- How Brexit rips up business models Part 2: visas for money and music
- How Brexit rips up business models Part 1: putting back barriers
- Norwegian Blue or Super-Canada - is there any life in this parrot?
- EU Copyright Directive - who pays the bill for the upload filter?
Published work
- Algorithms Patrolling Content: Where's the Harm?
- Content responsibility: The looming cloud of uncertainty for Internet intermediaries
- Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Standards and Private Online Censorship
- The Policy Challenge Of Content Restrictions: How Private Actors Engage The Duties Of States
- Internet Policy Review - The Aereo dilemma and copyright in the cloud
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