scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  The European Union is being lobbied into passing the so-called "Telecoms
> > Package" directives, which essentially would give all European ISPs full
> > powers to choose what they offer their clients from the internet (in other
> > words, to offer their clients only what they pay for, and completely block
> > and hide everything else).

> I wasn't aware there was anything to prevent them doing that already...

  I'm pretty sure that if ISPs started selling their bandwidth to the
highest bidders and blocking the rest, that would break at least a dozen
of fair commerce statutes. That's completely akin to boycotting.

> Why shouldn't they be allowed to choose what they offer?

  Because of basic human rights of freedom of information, and fair
commerce principles?

  An ISP has no right to start censoring information, especially not for
commercial reasons.

>  It's a bit like 
> expecting your local newsagents to deliver any possible publication you ask 
> for, why should they be forced to?

  No, it's not like that. It's like your local newagent using technical
measures to stop you from accessing competitor publications.

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