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1) "Under the proposed new rules, broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of websites you can look at, and to tell you whether or not you are allowed to use particular services. It will be dressed up as ‘new consumer options’ which people can choose from."
2) "What would it mean to you if free access to the Internet was taken away?"
3) Tell the European Parliament to vote against conditional access to the Internet!
4) Join this Facebook group
Read on master new media, from "Originally written by the Blackout Europe Team and first published on April 20th, 2009 as "URGENT – VOTING IN EU PARLIAMENT 5th of MAY 2009"."
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FIND OUT MORE
News on the Telecoms Package is available here:
http://www.laquadrature.net/en
To read the Telecoms Package proposals, go here:
http://www.laquadrature.net/lawtracks/telecoms_package/
The Second Reading amendments which will be voted by the European Parliament on 31 March and again on 5th May, are here:
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Telecoms_Package_2nd_Reading_ITRE_IMCO_Draft_Amendments#Amendment_85_--_2
An exhaustive, visually effective and easy to understand analysis of the amended Directives is available here:
http://www.scambioetico.eu/telecoms.package.diagrams.m.horten.5.april.2009.zip
Or you can look at the European Parliament's own website, which is less easy to follow:
Framework, access and authorisation directive
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByProcnum.do?lang=2&procnum=COD/2007/0247
Universal services and e-Privacy directive
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByProcnum.do?lang=2&procnum=COD/2007/0248
An alternative proposal that we like is here:
http://www.npt.no/iKnowBase/Content/109604/Guidelines%20for%20network%20neutrality.pdf
as a fair and equitable basis for all internet communications.
For independent information try:
(In English) http://www.iptegrity.com
(In German) http://netzpolitik.org/?s=telekom+paket
(In Italian)
http://punto-informatico.it/2585021/PI/News/non-lasciare-che-rete-diventi-tv.aspx
http://punto-informatico.it/2593665/PI/News/pacchetto-telecom-blackout-europeo.aspx
(In French) http://www.ecrans.fr/+-internet-+.html
INVITE! INVITE! INVITE!
Campaign supported by:
La Quadrature du Net
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12663398659
Open Rights Group
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Rights-Group/73607375435
Ireland Offline
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=69474680930
Associazione Scambio Etico
http://www.scambioetico.eu/index.php?topic=673.msg3637#msg3637
== What's next? ==
It appears the next stage of voting on the Telecoms Package is:
- 5 May: Plenary vote (29 April is last date changes can be tabled)
== What can you do to help? ==
Write to your Member of the European Parliament TODAY (see discussion board and www.blackouteurope.eu for details).
Talk to your friends, family, work colleagues - so that they too can write to their MEPs.
Write on blogs, forums, twitter, and social networks.
http://url.ie/1ghj
