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First you slide language into a report saying that all players should fund internet infrastructure - then you try to get parliament to adopt language in a compe

First you slide language into a report saying that all players should fund internet infrastructure - then you try to get parliament to adopt language in a competition report saying they support access fees, without any hearings. Luckily some last minute lobbying derailed that. 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... The European Commission has been engaging in tons of bad-faith trickery around this, including ignoring BEREC (the EU's top telecom regulators), trying to slam it through without a consulation, downplaying all the negative comments in the consultation they were forced into having, and who knows what is next? Shoving it into a must pass bill? Thierry Breton is a dangerous tech dinosaur who thinks that the future of Europe dominating tech is in Europe's ISPs. He thinks ISPs are the thing - when everyone knows that who you pay to get online is immaterial - it's what you do online that matters. He's deadset on figuring out how to make every big tech service in the world, from Google to AWS to Akamai to Cloudflare, pay EU ISPs. Having a former telecom CEO at the head of the EU will be disastrous for the EU, and could be disastrous for the world generally.

rsingel 3y ago
For the slide in thing, look at the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/94370 https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/94370 Chapter 2: c We commit to: "developing adequate frameworks so that all market actors benefiting from the digital transformation assume their social responsibilities and make a fair and proportionate contribution to the costs of public goods, services and infrastructures, for the benefit of all people living in the EU." Take that anodyne statement and then try to make it into online services paying ISPs in law. Call it fair share and point to this statement saying that everyone agreed to it. Then try to shove that into a paragraph of a competition policy report to get legislators on the record supporting network fees without debate and hope no one notices. Claim victory even when the gambit fails because of a very clever amendment. 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... ISPs, their lobbyists, and their lawyers play the long game.

rsingel 3y ago

For the slide in thing, look at the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/94370 https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/94370 Chapter 2: c We commit to: "developing adequate frameworks so that all market actors benefiting from the digital transformation assume their social responsibilities and make a fair and proportionate contribution to the costs of public goods, services and infrastructures, for the benefit of all people living in the EU." Take that anodyne statement and then try to make it into online services paying ISPs in law. Call it fair share and point to this statement saying that everyone agreed to it. Then try to shove that into a paragraph of a competition policy report to get legislators on the record supporting network fees without debate and hope no one notices. Claim victory even when the gambit fails because of a very clever amendment. 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... ISPs, their lobbyists, and their lawyers play the long game.