Glyn Moody writes "Not content with snooping on all the web* activity, the UK governance now wants to introduce changes to the contentious EU Telecoms Package, which will kill net neutrality in the EU: 'Amendments to the Telecoms Package circulated in Brussels by the UK government, seek to cross out users' rights to access and sort cyberspace content and services. And they want to replace it with a "principle" that users can be told not only the latitude for access, but also the altitude for the use of applications and services. The amendments, if carried, would reverse the assumption of end-to-end connectivity which has underpinned not only the Internet, but also continental telecommunications policy, to date.' To add to the irony, an accompanying text cuts and pastes from Wikipedia, without attribution."

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