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Dutch Parliament demands net neutrality
- quanticle 15y agoWell, its good to see that in some jurisdictions, at least, there's widespread support for net neutrality. That said, we'll see if the Dutch Parliament maintains its resolve in the face of the massive amounts of lobbying they're sure to get from ISPs. As a side note, is anyone else massively impressed by the quality of Google Translate these days? I mean, the quality of the translation is far above and beyond that of the "typical" machine translated text. Its almost as if a person with English as a second language had read and rewritten the text from the original Dutch.
- petervandijck 15y agoThe quality of the translation is astounding, you're right. Not perfect though. If you select some text, you'll see Google let's users submit improved translations, so some of it may actually have been manual.
- tybris 15y agoOverall I'm impressed by the translation, but by translating "Kamer" (Lower House) to "Court" in the abstract the meaning of the piece changes.
- aerique 15y agoI don't think there will be much lobbying from ISPs, definitely not XS4ALL which will probably have lobbied for net neutrality. The telcos on the other hand...
- Confusion 15y agoI don't understand why people are impressed by translations like these. They're a far cry from 'acceptable' to me and reading them still feels like removing a nasty splinter with the help of a needle, while running a steeple chase.
- mahrain 15y agoA rare display where the far left (socialist and green party) are joined by the far right PVV party, normally voting with the current administration of christian democrats and liberal-conservatives under an agreement giving the minority government a majority in parliament. Still, the administration can still ignore the demand or find other ways, and then there's still the European Parliament, where there are plans for a "great firewall" around Europe, so we may have won the battle, but not yet the war.
- tybris 15y agoI think it's only rare if you make that 1-dimensional characterization. The PVV has similar populist origins as the labour and socialist parties and have fairly similar views on most societal issues. The main difference is that, unlike the socialist parties, the PVV does not support the equality principle. In fact, they actively oppose it. This is more commonly associated with liberalism (the "right wing"), which despite its best intentions, usually becomes a vehicle for corporatism and aristocrats that have no interest in equality. Nonetheless, the inequality that the PVV promotes is of a very different kind.
- fleitz 15y agoI'm unfamiliar with dutch politics but could these two positions be boiled down to equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome?
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- jauco 15y agonot quite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom#Political_issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom#Political_iss...
- calloc 15y agoThis is going to be interesting, seeing as how the European Parliament has something to say on the matter as well ... Ultimately I am happy that my fellow country men see that net neutrality is the better way to go, and to just charge by the data used, not for what type of data it is.