Earlier this year, Austrian and German NGOs filed a complaint with the German Federal Network Agency against Deutsche Telekom, alleging that the internet service provider (ISP) is creating paid fast lanes to access websites.
On Wednesday (5 November), the groups held a talk to outline their complaint and why it's important for Europe's net neutrality.
The NGOs consists of Epicenter.works, the Society for Civil Rights, the Federation of German Consumer Organisations, plus Stanford professor Barbara van Schewick, arguing that Deutsche Telekom is creating a two-tiered internet through having web hosts pay extra for Telekom’s users.
The EU net neutrality law, “prohibits ISPs from treating traffic differently for commercial reasons. And that's exactly what's happening here,” said professor of net neutrality law van Schewick.
Net neutrality is the principle that ISPs should treat all internet traffic equally, regardless of where the data is going, and the activists see the Deutsche Telekom case as a reason why Europe needs these rules.
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