[Trisquel-users] Re : September 12: Catastrophe looms over the European Parliament

[lcerf]

There were lobbyists begging our representatives for years to take net  
neutrality away.  The source of the problem seems to be: our representatives  
end up acting in the interest of those can pay lobbyists (mainly companies)  
and not in the public interest.  That is plutocracy.  In my humble opinion,  
addressing that problem is no reason to stop trying to get our  
representatives to listen to us.

In the European Parliament in particular (where public money finance the  
political groups, as it should), we have some success: there is no software  
patent in the EU, ACTA is dead, etc.  Tomorrow's plenary vote is a partial  
success too: without a public mobilization, the Parliament would not have  
denied (on July 5th) the legal affairs committee (JURI) the right to  
negotiate with the Council.