35 organizations from 19 countries formed a coalition for network neutrality

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) joined 35 organizations from 19 countries that formed the global coalition for network neutrality Global Net Neutrality Coalition .



“The scope and diversity of this coalition emphasizes that network neutrality has become a truly global problem,” said an EFF official press release. - Internet users in the United States are struggling to reverse the classification of broadband access to a telecommunications service instead of an information service (the classification change took place in 2002) in order to regard providers as ordinary information channels. On the other side of the Atlantic, activists are also fighting for free Internet, which is again under threat this week. ”



Network neutrality is the principle by which telecommunications service providers do not prefer one target over another, or one class of application over another. Wikipedia writes that “the fundamental idea originated in the era of the invention of the telegraph in the middle of the XIX century. The telegrams were delivered “equally”, on equal terms, without trying to distinguish their content and regulate their belonging to one or another technical delivery method. ”

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EFF emphasizes that turning the Internet into an open platform does not mean that telecoms lose the right to take reasonable measures to regulate traffic on their networks or offer different rates for their services, for example, to individuals and legal entities. Not at all, explains EFF. But net neutrality is a ban on unfair competition, when telecoms use their position to discriminate a competitor. Or the creation of "closed regions", where only some sites and services are available.



The coalition website will formulate the basic rules of net neutrality, as well as create a bank of documents for all countries that participate in the project (as legal support and educational resource).