Net neutrality in the EU is only a few amendments away
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Your own representatives should at least acknowledge your communication, and in my experience you'll tend to get a mixed bag with MEPs where some will actually reply substantively but others mostly won't. Please remember to vote accordingly at the next elections as well, because often the MEP elections are considered second tier and don't get as much turn-out even though the elected MEPs wind up having a say on important issues like this one.
The "good" thing about the EUP is that it's so powerless that there is very little lobbying which means that MEP's tend to me much more ideological and open to input from anyone rather than their donors and lobby groups.
EDIT: Apparently the constituency segmentation can vary between country and country some use a single constituency some use sub-national segmentation that may or not be in line with local or national elections.
Also, MEPs have considerably more practical power since the Lisbon Treaty.
If I'm wrong please reply. Not having a law that mandates true net neutrality is a shame. Having a law that forbids net neutrality is a totally different matter !
But you also must see, that when something (so profitable) is allowed, than it will be used. Such a loophole was long time awaited by the internet providers. They want a legal loophole, so they can better sell their services.
I guess, they are already in the starting blocks to sell "better services" to the highest paying bidder. How this will end and if the nightmares will come true, nobody can say.
It's only zero rating for preferred providers under unfair or secretive terms that's problematic.
Elected officials generally ignore mass petitions or form emails, but calls show a much higher level of interest. If the barrier to entry is higher than for a "Back in my day Pluto was a planet" Facebook page, representatives know you're serious.
Source: Our team (Seneca Systems) works directly with elected officials on handling constituent requests.
Many politicians are willing to listen to their voters, especially if it not a stock e-mail, carefully written, and not rude or threatening (which unfortunately seems to be the norm today).
Subject was software patents and the TTIP and I spent about ~30 minutes writing an email (succinct, sound arguments, references, etc; an angry rant probably won't get a reply).
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No wonder, when you see, which politicians are in charge.
The EU -- I must regretful say -- is just a dumping place for those politicians, that did already prove in their own country that they are incompetent.
The whole EU is just an invitation for lobbyists to get more pleasant regulations.
In our country, the politicians always say: "Oh, we don't like that regulation, but we have to put it in action, because it comes from the EU" -- of course they say that even, when their own party or even when they themselves have pressured the EU to bring this regulation on it's way. The EU is just a big black box, where any stupid and unwanted (from the voters side) regulation can be brought threw, without putting votes at risk. A perfect system for politicians like we have in Germany, that give themselves a pretty looks, but in reality they just give a sh*t for their own voters. No wonder, we only have such puppets left in Berlin. But maybe, every nation just gets the politicians, it deserves.
Not really. EU is mostly dumping place for dangerous politicians. Ones that are to ambitious or can destroy status quo of current system. When prime minister is afraid of a strong independent person he sends him to the EU.
Also the ones that did something as a favor like taking blame for something or pushing proper rules through the voting and getting EU sit as an award.
So EU parliament is mix really, not just dumping ground.
It also seems, that many politicians just see the EU as a way to get much money very fast. The best idea is, just to cater the interests of the lobbyists.
But maybe the real problem is, that we only have incompetent politicians left. When I see, how the Germans stick to the "most competent women-leader" we have ... it is a disgrace.
Today, leadership in politics in reality seems to mean: Don't do anything at all and wait, until "the market" will do it right. How anybody could trust such leaders, that never solve a problem, but just shift things into the future (ultimately making the troubles worse) is just beyond me.
There are always unintended consequences to legislation