22.10.2009 Netzneutralität wird im Telcoms Package nicht mehr gefordert

22.10.2009: Netzneutralität wird im Telcoms Package nicht mehr gefordert

Amendment 138 dead by lack of courage of the Parliament

Strasbourg, October 21st, 2009 - Yesterday, representatives of the European Parliament, an institution that ordinarily prides itself for protecting human rights at home and abroad, decided to surrender to the pressure exerted by Member States. The Parliament gave up on amendment 138, a provision adopted on two occasions by an 88% majority of the plenary assembly, and which aims at protecting citizens' freedom in the online world. Instead of ensuring that no restriction to Internet access would be imposed without the prior ruling of a judge, amendment 138 will instead be replaced by a weak provision 1, that does not carry any new important safeguard for citizen's freedoms.

“Amendment 138 was in haste dissolved into useless legalese and soft consensus. The Parliament hurried to get rid of the safeguards of citizens' freedoms because it knew that with the imminent coming into effect of the Lisbon treaty, both institutions will soon share the legislative power in the field of judicial affairs. And the bad excuses we have heard these past few days to justify to abandon amendment 138 will then be totally obsolete. In the end, the Parliament was not brave enough to stand against the Council to defend citizens' freedoms.”, explains Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson for La Quadrature du Net.

Mehr dazu bei http://www.laquadrature.net/en/amendment-138-dead-by-lack-of-courage-of-the-parliament

Der Text des "verschwundenen" Amendment 138: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/telecoms-package-does-the-council-of-eu-hate-freedom