[ NNSquad ] Expanding the struggle

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu>]

Hello,

this message is just to point out that a couple of daring people from 
Italy joined the list and would like to expand the struggle for network 
neutrality to the Old Continent (the one with too many former monopolist 
telcos).

Of course, I guess that we first have to agree on what network 
neutrality actually is - on the IGF(*) civil society list we're in the 
middle of a long thread with very different viewpoints. I think we all 
think we can recognize the usefulness of the principle, and its 
violations when we see them, but when it comes to writing down a general 
rule, it might not be so easy.

For example, depending on how you define it, your ISP filtering spam for 
you might be violating network neutrality. So I guess that issues of 
transparence, public scrutiny and opt-in/opt-out possibility by the 
final user would be a piece of the picture, as well as market shares and 
the process through which the decision to filter is taken. In any case, 
I look forward to the discussion.

Regards,


(*) That's the UN Internet Governance Forum, just about to start in Rio 
de Janeiro.
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