Fortsatt kamp för friheten på internet – 166:an
Kampen för ett fritt internet fortsätter och jag har nu precis skickat ut ett påminnelsemail till mina kollegor som i förstaläsningen av telekompaketet röstade för mitt ändringsförslag 166. Det är ett par timmar kvar till deadline och det behövs fortfarande ett 30-tal namn för att nå upp till spärren för att få lämna in förslagen – jag hoppas det går vägen! Nedan kan ni sen hur stor skillnaden är mellan det förslag som röstades i andraläsningen i utskottet och Harbours förslag (vilket han har mage att kalla kompromiss).
Här är mailet som skickats ut till de över 300 ledamöter som stödde förslaget i förra omröstningen:
Dear supporter of amendment 166. As I wrote to you yesterday, we last week won a great victory when the ITRE committee once more carried amendment 138/46 in the Trautmann report and thereby clearly stating that the Parliament is against filtering internet users and the use of “three strikes and your out” as a punishment.
I though must remind you once more that amendment 138 was tabled together with amendment 166 for the Telecoms Package first reading. The principles expressed in this amendment originally defended our fundamental freedoms on the internet – an implication which has been changed in its essence due to hard pressure from the Council.
I am therefore calling for your support for the original wording of this amendment (see below amendment 72=146, identical to original 166, carried in 1st reading and Committee 2nd reading). I hope you want to continue the fight for an unfiltered Internet together with me for the second reading – but we are in a hurry.
The deadline for sending in the amendment is 12.00 today and we still need some more signatures.
In my office I have a signed copy of the amendment – please feel free to come and sign it our print the attached version and deliver it signed to my office.
I am sending you my gratitude in advance.
Regards
Christofer Fjellner
Original
Amendment 72=146, identical to original 166,carried in 1st reading and Committe 2nd reading
”Article 32a Access to content, services and applications
Member States shall ensure that any restrictions on the rights of users to access content, services and applications, if such restrictions are necessary, are implemented by appropriate measures, in accordance with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness. Those measures shall not have the effect of hindering the development of the information society, in compliance with Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce)*, and shall not conflict with the fundamental rights of citizens, including the right to privacy and the right to due process.”
Compromise
”3. This Directive neither mandates nor prohibits conditions imposed by providers of publicly available electronic communications and services, where allowed under national law and in conformity with Community law, limiting users’ access to and/or use of services
and applications but does provide for information of such conditions. National measures regarding end-users’ access to or use of services and applications through electronic communications networks shall respect the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and shall be in accordance with the objectives and principles set out in Article 8 of Directive 2002/21/EC.”
