French online rights group La Quadrature du Net this week announced an analysis asserting that in more than half of European Union countries, telecommunications operators engage in “illegitimate” restrictions of their users’ access.
The report from RespectMyNet “includes 144 confirmed reports of breaches to Net neutrality, spread among 44 operators in more than 14 Member States who engage in violating their users’ freedom of communication by blocking or throttling specific content, applications or services available on the Internet,” La Quadrature du Net said.
“Such evidence shows that EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes’ “laisser-faire” approach on Net neutrality amounts to allowing operators to blatantly violate their users’ freedom of communication,” the group said. “Now is the time for the EU Commission to start working on stringent measures to enforce Net neutrality all across Europe.”
The announcement is here.