If anyone from the EU does want to take action on this, please remember to contact your own MEPs. This site seems to be advocating calling an MEP at random, or calling any MEP from your own country, but most elected representatives will (and often by convention must) ignore representations from anyone who isn't in their constituency.
Your own representatives should at least acknowledge your communication, and in my experience you'll tend to get a mixed bag with MEPs where some will actually reply substantively but others mostly won't. Please remember to vote accordingly at the next elections as well, because often the MEP elections are considered second tier and don't get as much turn-out even though the elected MEPs wind up having a say on important issues like this one.
MEP as far as i know are a single national constituency, there aren't districts through which they are elected.
So you can pretty much call any MEP in the EU country you live and vote for the EUP in regardless of your nationality.
The "good" thing about the EUP is that it's so powerless that there is very little lobbying which means that MEP's tend to me much more ideological and open to input from anyone rather than their donors and lobby groups.
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Apparently the constituency segmentation can vary between country and country some use a single constituency some use sub-national segmentation that may or not be in line with local or national elections.
It depends on the country you're in. For some EU states the MEPs are elected as a single group. For others there are constituencies within the state and the state's overall group of MEPs is composed of several smaller groups. So what you say is true in some states, but not in others.
Also, MEPs have considerably more practical power since the Lisbon Treaty.
I must be missing something. I from the resources I read I didn't find an indication that these laws mandate that traffic prioritization is must allowed. As I gather they just don't specifically forbid prioritization.
If I'm wrong please reply. Not having a law that mandates true net neutrality is a shame. Having a law that forbids net neutrality is a totally different matter !
But you also must see, that when something (so profitable) is allowed, than it will be used. Such a loophole was long time awaited by the internet providers. They want a legal loophole, so they can better sell their services.
I guess, they are already in the starting blocks to sell "better services" to the highest paying bidder. How this will end and if the nightmares will come true, nobody can say.
The "ban zero rating" thing bothers me. I think that zero rating is a great idea if applied fairly. An ISP should be allowed to sell zero rated traffic at a fixed and publicly advertised price, using openly documented protocols, and free of onerous requirements or contracts, as long as any person or company can use it.
It's only zero rating for preferred providers under unfair or secretive terms that's problematic.
Back when the industry tried to push a unified software patentent bill in Europe, I wrote personal (non-stock) e-mails to some members of the EP. Nearly all of them gave non-stock answers and were interested in the arguments that I provided against patents.
Many politicians are willing to listen to their voters, especially if it not a stock e-mail, carefully written, and not rude or threatening (which unfortunately seems to be the norm today).
I have the same experience. I've personally emailed with [and gotten replies back from] both MPs[1] as well as one member of the EU Commission. I should note that it was replies from them, not their secretaries/letter-writers.
Subject was software patents and the TTIP and I spent about ~30 minutes writing an email (succinct, sound arguments, references, etc; an angry rant probably won't get a reply).
Calling them is not (which this site apparently enables for free.)
Elected officials generally ignore mass petitions or form emails, but calls show a much higher level of interest. If the barrier to entry is higher than for a "Back in my day Pluto was a planet" Facebook page, representatives know you're serious.
Source: Our team (Seneca Systems) works directly with elected officials on handling constituent requests.
The whole regulation was undermined from the beginning by financial interests of big corporations and internet providers.
No wonder, when you see, which politicians are in charge.
The EU -- I must regretful say -- is just a dumping place for those politicians, that did already prove in their own country that they are incompetent.
The whole EU is just an invitation for lobbyists to get more pleasant regulations.
In our country, the politicians always say: "Oh, we don't like that regulation, but we have to put it in action, because it comes from the EU" -- of course they say that even, when their own party or even when they themselves have pressured the EU to bring this regulation on it's way. The EU is just a big black box, where any stupid and unwanted (from the voters side) regulation can be brought threw, without putting votes at risk. A perfect system for politicians like we have in Germany, that give themselves a pretty looks, but in reality they just give a sh*t for their own voters. No wonder, we only have such puppets left in Berlin. But maybe, every nation just gets the politicians, it deserves.
>The EU -- I must regretful say -- is just a dumping place for those politicians, that did prove in their own land that they are incompetent.
Not really. EU is mostly dumping place for dangerous politicians. Ones that are to ambitious or can destroy status quo of current system. When prime minister is afraid of a strong independent person he sends him to the EU.
Also the ones that did something as a favor like taking blame for something or pushing proper rules through the voting and getting EU sit as an award.
So EU parliament is mix really, not just dumping ground.
Maybe. I just can speak from those politicians, I saw going there. There are some very incompetent instances in between. I can not see, how they (which I know) could be dangerous -- in spite being dangerous for the whole EU because of their decisions in Brussels.
It also seems, that many politicians just see the EU as a way to get much money very fast. The best idea is, just to cater the interests of the lobbyists.
But maybe the real problem is, that we only have incompetent politicians left. When I see, how the Germans stick to the "most competent women-leader" we have ... it is a disgrace.
Today, leadership in politics in reality seems to mean: Don't do anything at all and wait, until "the market" will do it right. How anybody could trust such leaders, that never solve a problem, but just shift things into the future (ultimately making the troubles worse) is just beyond me.
Your own representatives should at least acknowledge your communication, and in my experience you'll tend to get a mixed bag with MEPs where some will actually reply substantively but others mostly won't. Please remember to vote accordingly at the next elections as well, because often the MEP elections are considered second tier and don't get as much turn-out even though the elected MEPs wind up having a say on important issues like this one.