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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Allegedly within the UK a home Internet connection is on average significantly faster and cheaper.
Any truth to this?
Allegedly within the EU a home Internet connection is on average significantly faster and cheaper.
Any truth to this?
But if you upload anything deemed “Hate Speech”, Germany stops believing in Open and Free Internet for you
Good. I was really worried they wouldn’t. /s
Sleazy Nazis.......
Never believe a word they say.
They would love to control free speech as they control thought in most of Europe
Well, that’s what they got with yesterday’s vote.
Orwellian translation - the Internet is open and free as long as everything you say agrees with our positions.
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.
Krauts are always in the wrobg side in every
matter of government. Control freaks
So, they back the Trump administration to return to an open and free Internet?
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.
Sure they do.
As long as your website doesn’t criticise Muslms, homosexuals, transgenders, rapists, abortionists or the Volkswagen corporation.
Scratch a German find an authoritarian underneath.... if you know what I mean.
No, UK internet and landlines are horrible.
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.
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?
German government says it backs ‘open and free internet’
Even those against Net Neutrality believe in an open and free internet.
Just wondering if there is a different “solution (hardware-sioftware-business model-gov’t edict)” to i’net service in Europe.
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