What do you do if you’re a corrupted EU politician and wants the Telecoms Package to pass without the additional integrity protecting amendments?
Well, just don’t add them.
A-R-G-H-H-H.
Swartz used this as an illustration. It’s right on.
The situation is now like this;
The parliament has voted on the Telecoms package. As familiar, amendment 166 was voted into the package and thus providing european citizens with protection against arbitrary disconnection from the internet and privacy.
So far all good and here’s the voting results from EU-parliament so you can read for yourselves.
Now the matter moved on to the “WORKING PARTY ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION SOCIETY” whose job is to prepare the package for either a second hearing, or if everyone are still agreeing, for the ministers for OK’ing.
HOWEVER (always seem to be a however in my posts), what they are now doing is more or less editing away the amendments that were added and making it as they (the french, primarily) want it. Yep, that’s right, they are actually editing the democratic decision by the parliament to fit the lobbying organizations needs. A leaked document shows us this progress and the evidently left out “Article 32a” which would be the one containing amendment 166’s content.
We now need to make some noise! But not just the (crazy?) swedes, everyone! If you are from another European country please send e-mails to your MEP’s and/or call them and ask them to follow-up on and verify that their democratically voted decisions stands firm! Remind them that if this can be changed, so can their own main issues and that this should not go unnoticed through a democratic system!
I’m getting seriously tired of writing about politicians and others tricking and removing citizens rights.
Can’t any of them please break the trend so I can write something nice?
Others writing (mostly in Swedish, use the translator): Oscar Swartz, Opassande, Josef, scaber_nestor, farmorgun, Frihet-Fildelning&Feminism, satmaran, Jens. O, HAX.
