The group brings together European national regulators approved a regulation on net neutrality in Europe. A document that is intended to prevent service providers blocks or filters, according to their interests, the traffic generated by content producers such as Facebook, Spotify, Google etc, according appropriated the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
since October 2015, the European community is mired in a debate on the Internet, and the principle of neutrality, according to which the content on the network must be accessible to all without prioritizing each other.
Although the new regulations the principle of neutrality there are loopholes that could facilitate some service providers broadband modify data traffic according to their interests is maintained.
companies can slow or speed downloading applications, documents or services in accordance with the rules coined terms such as special services, zero-rating, class discrimination and prevention of traffic congestion. These concepts leave gaps as organizations for the free movement of data on the network restrict freedom of consumer choice, promote monopolistic practices and feed censorship. The written text does not specify what criteria are to define “special services”. With this euphemism Internet providers can create two-way data transmission. A fast and a slow
The problem is that it does not define what these services are not specified which should not be of an economic nature , which a large company could pay to go on the fast track, while startups, small businesses that start from scratch growing potential of the Internet, no longer have the opportunities they have today, they would remain in the slow track with all the services that can not pay. Moreover, this gap could also allow operators create service packages at will, benefiting or harming certain content.
Activists who participated in Save The Internet, international companies such as WordPress, Netflix, Reddit, Tumblr , Vimeo or Kickstarter, and personalities such as Tim Berners Lee (creator of the World Wide web), had fought for a series of amendments that were rejected should be included
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