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Originally Posted by Betonov
Slovenia voted against.
Wow, so the retards we pay for their ''work holliday'' in Strassbourg actually did something right. Must have been drunk. I can't expect a sensible decision from people I once described as aborted donkey fetuses.
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Actually you should not be surprised. At the end of the day, they are politicians and being literally inundated with messages telling them to support net neutrality or face the music back home, is reason enough to vote in the direction of the legislation already in force in Slovenia. Plus, not all of them as that bad, just that our media has absolutely no idea how to report about them or their political powers in the real-world.
Going back to the wider issue, I have to play the Devil's advocate for the EU here (at least for the European Parliament). I will not go into detail about net neutrality as such, but point out that in the position voted by the EP before last year's elections, net neutrality amendments were added in after a lengthy battle.
Unfortunately, the Council of the EU, under the leadership of Germany (whose politicians seems to be completely and absolutely clueless about how the digital economy works, just look at Oettinger!), decided to run roughshod over the entire concept. You only need to look at roaming charges for additional evidence. Roaming was supposed to be completely removed in a short while, now they moved the date to middle 2017 and even then, mobile providers will have a large degree of leniency.
What I want to say, direct some of your ire at the national politicians as well. Your industry/digital affairs ministers as just as responsible as MEPs!
As concerns the British EU referendum, the Bullingdon club toff is even more likely to sell you out to the companies once all European "constraints" are removed.