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Are you tired of your internet service provider (ISP) changing the rules? Have you had enough of limitations and reading new ISP regulations? Professor Tim Wu from the Columbia Law School is applying an old concept to the internet connection. He is suggesting that a possible solution is owning the internet connection:
“…In [...]

In Canada, the regulator agency over communications and internet services is the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). In a recent decision, the CRTC has rules that internet throttling is permissible:
“Bell Canada Inc. is not breaking any laws by slowing internet speeds and will be allowed to continue throttling its customers, the CRTC has [...]

The United Kingdom has been called the ‘Surveillance Society’. Citizens’ activities are monitored and kept in various data bases. It seems that many people in the UK will find that their internet service provider (ISP) has joined the surveillance movement:
“Six of the UK’s biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music [...]

It is a victory for net neutrality and privacy online. It means that internet service providers (ISP) cannot throttle the internet, at their discretion:
“WASHINGTON - A recommendation to punish Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers’ Internet traffic should serve as a warning to other service providers, the nation’s top telecommunications regulator said Friday.
Federal Communications Commission [...]

In a legislative move to stem piracy, France has introduced legislation that would ban violators from the internet:
“Anyone in France who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under a controversial new law that makes the country a pioneer in combating internet piracy.
“There is no reason that [...]