A few posts ago, we talked here about the debate (theoretical, but also, and very remarkably, political and legal) surrounding ‘net neutrality.’ A debate in which, among other things, the possibility of controlling the content that moves through the network and, specifically, what millions of users share on the internet, penalizing the exchange of material protected by copyright, is being decided. Well, yesterday the European Parliament voted on the amendments presented by Malcolm Harbour, which pave the way for internet control measures and the breaking of net neutrality. The result is that only two MEPs voted against these amendments. Best of all, this process, which will influence millions of European citizens, has been carried out in a less than transparent way – to say the least: the committee’s votes have not been public and media coverage has been practically nil.
Carlos Alonso announced the news of the votes the day before yesterday on his blog and analyzes the result today.