carles

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"By creating legal uncertainty for the Internet operators, ACTA will force them to bend under the pressure of entertainment industries. ACTA will compell Internet service providers to filter and remove content and services, turning them into private police and justice auxiliaries. We cannot tolerate that restrictions to fundamental rights and freedoms be imposed by private actors. Such a modification of criminal law by governments themselves, in total opacity, shows how much the people behind ACTA hate democracy."

Tags: /ACTA /Internet neutrality /internet /copyright /democracy

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"While the impact of network neutrality obligations on network investment is likely negligible — or even positive — the absence of nondiscrimination protections will have a substantial negative impact on investments made in the content and applications markets. Currently, the Internet is an open platform that provides online innovators with a high degree of predictability about a major segment of their business. An innovator knows that she can develop a new idea or application, and that it will work on any end-user’s Internet-connected device. Without network neutrality, this certainty is lost. Losing network neutrality could badly undercut the current investment in applications and services — a sector of our economy much larger than the network infrastructure itself."

Tags: /internet neutrality /internet /politics