First, there is no such thing as free speech in the EU. Especially not in the UK Second of all net neutrality is not about freedom of speech. It is a concerted

First, there is no such thing as free speech in the EU. Especially not in the UK Second of all net neutrality is not about freedom of speech. It is a concerted campaign by Google, netflix, yahoo and amazon to keep costs low. There is a very real threat that people like verison will charge real money to peer with the above companies. This is a direct threat to their business model. The reason why its not an issue here is that all ISPs in the UK peer at coop exchanges. The concept of charging $17 million dollars to peer just doesn't apply. ISPs over here wanted to ban torrenting, as 1% of the userbase started racking up 80% of the bandwidth costs. However as ISPs introduced caps and blocks, other popped up offering light traffic shaping instead, or bandwidth caps. The market forces won.