"The opponents include many of the same actors who pushed the Federal Communications Commission for stronger U.S. rules, including Stanford University's Barbara van Schewick and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. A number of companies and venture capitalists also weighed in Sunday with a letter to European officials. The group includes Etsy, Kickstarter, Netflix and reddit.
Because the proposal doesn't clearly define what "impending" means, van Schewick writes, "this provision opens the floodgates for managing traffic at all times.""
- Date Published:10/26/2015
- Original Publication:The Washington Post