The Inventor of the Web Wants Europeans To Rescue Net Neutrality

"Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, has pleaded with EU regulators to sew up the loopholes in the bloc’s new net neutrality rules, which aim to maintain a level playing field on the Internet.

Berners-Lee, along with activist academics Lawrence Lessig and Barbara van Schewick, published an open letter to citizens, lawmakers and regulators, declaring there were “four days to save the open Internet in Europe.”

The public has until July 18 to comment on the draft guidelines published by the EU’s telecoms regulators, in which they described how they would apply the new “net neutrality” rules that were agreed by lawmakers last year."