Good news for #RouterFreedom and #NetNeutrality
The Italian regulator AGCOM has opened a consultation on the determination of the location of the termination point. This will define whether end-users can use their own routers and modems to connect to the internet.
https://www.agcom.it/provvedimenti/delibera-31-25-cons
Last October, we called to start a regulatory process to protect consumer rights and ensure router freedom in Italy.
More: https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20241016-01.en.html
We will contribute to the consultation, stay tuned!
How uplifting seeing the name Aaron Swartz in my feed so much lately & then this article, filled with the names of wonderful organizations such as: Internet Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, & Creative Commons popped into my feed today! Keep the ball rolling! Opt-out of the surveillance capitalist culture war for-profit cesspool. Choose #OpenSource, #FOSS, #OpenAccess #GNU #FSF, #NoAI, NoLLM, #Linux #NetNeutrality (HT: @atoponce for this!) https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/
#RouterFreedom is the longest policy/legal project I have been working so far. While the @fsfe started in Germany way back in 2013, I joined later the party in Feb. 2019 to cover the efforts at EU level after the 2018 reform of EU telecommunications law.
Having confirmed Router Freedom confirmed after almost 6 years in Germany is a great achievement, also in a personal level. I am very grateful to a LOT of people helping us with technical, legal, policy and community management advises. The effort paid off!
In special a big shout out to @mxmehl, @lexelas and @kirschner who have been great fellows in this path.
Now we look to a broader picture. #DeviceNeutrality, #DMA, #satellite networks are posing new challenges for #NetNeutrality and the right of end-users to choose their own equipment for internet connection.
Just ended the live stream. Thanks for the 42 of your who popped in and said hello or watched.
We of course discussed tiktok but we discussed the implications of this bill and the future of the Internet (which has been enshittifying for a bit).
We talked about politics and the politicking of this ban.
We talked about use of #VPN and proxies to get around the ban (BTW a VPN did NOT work for me to access #TikTok)
We talked about #NetNeutrality
We talked about violence as a means of political organization.
All of this has been unanimously decided by government. Both parties agreed overwhelmingly and the #SCOTUS decided 9-0 to allow this.
If you want to see all 2 hours of the stream, here ya go .
If you're concerned about the outsized power of Digital platforms, you'll want to follow the work of #privacyinternational which produces a #podcast that they host on their own #peertube instance, and have been for quite some time:)
This means you can follow them directly from #mastodon here:
and their podcast here:
@privacyint@media.privacyinternational.org
https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/be92f48f-228d-42cf-b214-9ad238972f87
#privacy #surveillance #mergers #gafam #meta #fb #monopoly #corporatecapture #netneutrality @pluralistic #antitrust
"Corporate power is leveraging corruption to dismantle whatever's left of federal consumer protection and our consolidated corporate press simply could not give any less of a fuck because extraction class ownership wants tax breaks, merger approvals, and deregulation" - Karl Bode, journalist
#Tech #NetNeutrality #CorporateMedia #Capitalism #ConsumerProtection
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/07/u-s-media-once-again-fails-to-cover-the-corrupt-net-neutrality-ruling-with-any-clarity/
U.S. Media Once Again Fails To Cover The Corrupt Net Neutrality Ruling With Any Clarity | Techdirt
The great thing about the recent #NetNeutrality court decision is that it allows service providers to get into the #enshittification game. Now they’re no longer required to observe neutrality with respect to content sources, they can (a) deliver an inferior experience to consumers – phase 1 of enshittification, per @pluralistic – AND (b) extort more money from content providers – phase 2.
Welcome to Year 0 of the true enshittocene, when ubiquitous enshittification REALLY kicks into high gear.
Oh, tiens, les libertariens américains ont encore torpillé la neutralité du net.
Parions que ça servira de prétexte à des opérateurs européens pour se débarrasser de ce droit fondamental sous couvert d’excuses fumeuses.
Les porcs mercantiles s’entretiennent.
@JensHannemann @gleick
I've been stewing on this since last night and here's where I landed.
I believe no amount of expert guidance would have changed this court's opinions on #NetNeutrality.
They had an outcome they wanted, and retconned the argument (pretty badly, apparently) to make it work.
They don't care if anything about this decision is justifiable, reasonable, or gives a single consideration to consumer protection.
Congress could write a law, but because of electoral and party circumstances, they won't. SCOTUS probably won't even hear the case if appealed, and if they did, they'd probably uphold the ruling.
Some people view it as a power move to engage in blatant hypocrisy like this, almost as a taunt, to challenge anyone who thinks they made a bad decision with a "well, what are you going to do about it?" when we all know the answer is...ANGH. Ain't nothing gonna happen, not for a while, anyway.