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German government says it backs 'open and free internet' [after FCC Net Neutrality repeal]
Associated Press ^ | Dec 15, 2017 7:54 AM EST

Posted on 12/15/2017 8:34:23 AM PST by Olog-hai

The German government says it backs an “open and free internet” following the U.S. decision to repeal net neutrality rules.

A spokeswoman for the Economy Ministry said Friday that Germany had “taken note” of the U.S. move but declined to comment directly on it.

However, spokeswoman Beate Baron said the German government supports rules introduced across the European Union last year forbidding discriminatory access to the internet. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government
KEYWORDS: eussr; internet; netneutrality; socialmarketeconomy; stasi
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1 posted on 12/15/2017 8:34:23 AM PST by Olog-hai
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2 posted on 12/15/2017 8:36:04 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Olog-hai

Allegedly within the UK a home Internet connection is on average significantly faster and cheaper.

Any truth to this?


3 posted on 12/15/2017 8:36:43 AM PST by Paladin2 (There is no credible evidence that 0sama is a NBC.)
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To: Olog-hai

Allegedly within the EU a home Internet connection is on average significantly faster and cheaper.

Any truth to this?


4 posted on 12/15/2017 8:39:00 AM PST by Paladin2 (There is no credible evidence that 0sama is a NBC.)
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To: Olog-hai

But if you upload anything deemed “Hate Speech”, Germany stops believing in Open and Free Internet for you


5 posted on 12/15/2017 8:39:33 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: KC_Lion

Good. I was really worried they wouldn’t. /s


6 posted on 12/15/2017 8:43:01 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Olog-hai

Sleazy Nazis.......
Never believe a word they say.
They would love to control free speech as they control thought in most of Europe


7 posted on 12/15/2017 8:45:20 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocke)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, that’s what they got with yesterday’s vote.


8 posted on 12/15/2017 8:45:23 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Olog-hai

Orwellian translation - the Internet is open and free as long as everything you say agrees with our positions.


9 posted on 12/15/2017 8:45:34 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Olog-hai

All bills passed by Congress are given titles that are the opposite of what they do.

“Net neutrality” is code for burying information that contradicts the globalist agenda.


10 posted on 12/15/2017 8:47:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Olog-hai

Krauts are always in the wrobg side in every
matter of government. Control freaks


11 posted on 12/15/2017 8:50:45 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: Olog-hai

So, they back the Trump administration to return to an open and free Internet?


12 posted on 12/15/2017 8:52:59 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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If they really did, they’d reopen the Disqus comment boards on the English version of their “news” sites. They shut them down earlier this year. The last thing they want is dissenting opinion, or anyone explaining what the governmental vision of the Founding Fathers of the USA was—imagine anyone daring to question their socialistic Basic Law.


13 posted on 12/15/2017 8:58:27 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Sure they do.

As long as your website doesn’t criticise Muslms, homosexuals, transgenders, rapists, abortionists or the Volkswagen corporation.


14 posted on 12/15/2017 9:00:43 AM PST by Regulator
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Scratch a German find an authoritarian underneath.... if you know what I mean.


15 posted on 12/15/2017 9:01:40 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: Paladin2

No, UK internet and landlines are horrible.


16 posted on 12/15/2017 9:03:07 AM PST by jennychase
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To: Regulator

Didn’t know Volkswagen AG was above criticism. The press there sure hated VW AG back during so-called “Dieselgate”, precipitated by (who?) Obama of course.


17 posted on 12/15/2017 9:05:07 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Paladin2

Their connections in some areas are subsidized by the EU. Are you implying that rate and connection speed are somehow related to net neutrality and that cheap fast service justifies the government regulating the internet?


18 posted on 12/15/2017 9:08:01 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Olog-hai

German government says it backs ‘open and free internet’


Who doesn’t?

Even those against Net Neutrality believe in an open and free internet.


19 posted on 12/15/2017 9:08:02 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Just wondering if there is a different “solution (hardware-sioftware-business model-gov’t edict)” to i’net service in Europe.


20 posted on 12/15/2017 9:10:02 AM PST by Paladin2 (There is no credible evidence that 0sama is a NBC.)
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