Got an e-mail from the Swedish socialdemocrats in the EU-parliament with good news on the Telecoms package, but it was kind of fuzzy. Turned to HAX‘s blog (Swedish) and during the vote on the Telecoms Package today some good things happened:

* The frech parlamentarian Toubon withdrew his amendment (132) which was going to make things even worse!

* Amendment 138 was accepted, making it impossible to disconnect european citizens from the internet without a fair trial!

* Amendment 166 was accepted (!!!!!!) which means no internet filtering in the european union!

The last one passed with 346 votes against 312. Frightening how many MEPs are for filtering of the internet. Really chilling.

But as HAX notes, no champagne yet. The package needs further analysis until we can be sure that no other strange/bad things are included.

The package also contained some good and market-liberal (good) things such as

* Shorter subscription times on cellular, broadband and other communication services.

* Shorter times for switching between providers (more competitive market) for these services.

* The right to be notified when a breach exposing personal or economical details has been detected.

All-in-all it seems like a good day in the European Union, but I’ll get back with more info if there’s an ugly frog somewhere.

Tomorrow it’s time for the handling of Marianne Mikko’s “Media-report”. This has been fixed up a bit now, so if it’s OK’d it will not mean that all bloggers and internet publicists need to be registered. Anonymous blogging is still OK in other words.

Cheers,