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Why Europe’s net neutrality plan is more controversial than US rules

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"Let’s examine the four major parts of the EU proposal that net neutrality advocates are trying to change and compare these to the US rules. To help illuminate the differences, Ars spoke to Barbara van Schewick, a law professor who directs Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. Van Schewick also wrote an article criticizing the EU proposal last week.

Yet the EU proposal is much worse than the US rules, van Schewick argues. For one thing, the FCC has an explicit prohibition on using the specialized services exception to evade the spirit of network neutrality."

Published in: Press , Network Neutrality , EU law , Architecture and Public Policy