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by mtgx 4954 days ago
It's not the "EU" as in the EU Parliament. In fact they've passed a resolution to oppose this sort of changes at ITU's WCIT. The article talks about ETNO, an European telecom association. So it's the ISP's and carriers from Europe pushing for these changes. Nothing to do with the EU Parliament or EU governments (well, Russia and China's censorship proposals are entirely different from this). Just corporations being greedy. The EU Parliament has actually legislated their roaming prices twice in the past (downwards), because they thought roaming prices should be much smaller than they were, within EU's borders.