The debate over a neutral network is very hot these days and could not be for less, in Spain, a group of politicians in power with very little knowledge and threaten long-term vision to end it to accommodate the interests of a few large companies ...
Citizens and businesses using Internet text attached to this state:
- Internet is a Neutral Red by design, from its inception to its current implementation, in which information flows freely, without discrimination based on origin, destination, protocol, or content.
- That businesses, entrepreneurs and Internet users have been able to create services and products in the Neutral Red without authorization or prior agreements, resulting in a virtually non-existent barrier to entry has allowed the explosion of creativity, innovation and service that defines the current network status.
- All users, entrepreneurs and Internet companies have been able to define and offer their services on an equal footing taking the concept of competition to an extent previously unknown.
- Internet is the vehicle of free speech, freedom of information and most important social development which have citizens and businesses. His nature must not be jeopardized in any way.
- In order to bring the Neutral Network operators must carry packets of data in a neutral manner without being a "customs" of traffic and no advantage or disadvantage to some content over others.
- That traffic management in specific situations and exceptional network overload should be undertaken in a transparent manner according to standard criteria of public interest and non-discriminatory and non-commercial.
- That restriction outstanding traffic by operators can not become a sustainable alternative to network investment.
- Neutral Red that this is threatened by operators interested in reaching commercial agreements which favors or degrade the content according to their relationship with the operator.
- Some market participants want to "redefine" the Neutral Red to be handled in accordance with their interests, and that claim must be avoided, the definition of the fundamental rules of operation of the Internet should be based on the interest of those who use it, not those the supply.
- That the response to this threat to the network will not be inaction, doing nothing amounts to allowing private interests to conduct de facto practices affecting citizens' fundamental freedoms and the ability of firms to compete on equal conditions.
- It is necessary and urgent urge the Government to protect a clear and unambiguous Neutral Network, in order to protect the value of Internet towards developing a more productive, modern, efficient and free of interference and interferences. This requires that any motion to approve inextricably linking the definition of Neutral Red in the content of future legislation that promotes and does not condition its application to issues that have little to do with it.
The Neutral Red is a clearly defined concept in academia, where it stirs debate: citizens and businesses have the right to traffic received or generated data is not manipulated, distorted, impeded, diverted or delayed in accordance with priority the type of content, protocol or application used, the origin or destination of the communication or any other circumstances unrelated to their will. That traffic is treated as a private communication and only under court order may be monitored, traced, stored or analyzed in its content, such as private correspondence that it really is.
Europe and Spain in particular, are in the midst of an economic crisis so important to force the reversal of its production model, and better use of the creativity of its citizens. Neutral Network is crucial to preserve an ecosystem that encourages competition and innovation for the creation of numerous products and services that are to invent and discover. The ability to worknetworking, collaborative manner, and connected markets, will affect all sectors and all companies in our country, making the Internet a key factor in our current and future economic and social development, largely determining the level country's competitiveness. Hence our deep concern for the preservation of the Neutral Network. We therefore urge the Spanish Government urgently to be proactive in the European context and to legislate in a clear and unambiguous in this regard.
If you feel represented by this manifesto strongly urge you copy it and post it to your blog or mention it in your account Twitter or Facebook using the hashtag #redneutral . Thank you!
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