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The ISPs are lobbying for this for years. They see that 90% of traffic is a handful of services like Netflix and co. and they feel entitled to charge those some
by the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
The ISPs are lobbying for this for years. They see that 90% of traffic is a handful of services like Netflix and co. and they feel entitled to charge those something.
You only need to convince a handful of bureaucrats of that idea.
- Semaphor 3y agoYou need to convince a decent chunk of Parliament, not just a handful.
- Exoristos 3y agoNo, only the pols in charge.
- f_devd 3y agoWell you need to convince someone in the Commission to raise the proposal (the easy part), and then you need to convince a majority of parties 300-350 people to vote in favour of the proposal in Parliament, and do the same in the council (member countries national leaders).
- rsingel 3y agoCame pretty close, actually: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/06/when-media-gets-it-wrong-eu-parliament-actually-said-no-forcing-websites-pay-isps https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/06/when-media-gets-i...