🔥 A group of civil society organisations calls on the next @EU_Commission to preserve the Open Internet! In an open letter addressed to Commissioner-designate for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy @HennaVirkkunen ahead of her 12 November confirmation hearing at the European Parliament. ⚠️ The signatories express their concerns with ongoing efforts to undermine critical principles of net neutrality and to request that the European Commission refrain from intervening in the commercial dynamics of the Internet’s interconnection ecosystem. 🗣️ The group “strongly oppose[s] these proposals that [they] believe are not only unnecessary, but also extremely harmful to the global Internet and its users,” emphasising that “only the largest operators supported this type of regulatory intervention.” 📣 They recall that European stakeholders have already spoken during the recent consultation efforts: “it is time for Europe to use its global leadership to promote an open Internet for everyone.” 🔗 internetsociety.org/open-let…  🖊️ The signatories: 🔸 @internetsociety 🔸 @epicenter_works 🔸 @ApTI_ro 🔸 @CENTRnews 🔸 Chaos Computer Club e.V. (@chaosupdates) 🔸 Chaos Computer Club Lëtzebuerg (@c3l_) 🔸 @LibertiesEU 🔸 @creativecommons 🔸 Desiree Miloshevic, RIPE Cooperation Working Group Co-Chair 🔸 Digital Society Forum 🔸 @digitalcourage 🔸 @DrzavljanD 🔸 Dr. @kkomaitis, Senior Resident Fellow, Lead on Internet governance, DFRLab, Atlantic Council; senior researcher and non-resident fellow, Lisbon Council. 🔸 Electronic Frontier Foundation (@EFF) 🔸 Electronic Frontier Norway (@EFN) 🔸 European Digital Rights (@edri) 🔸 @Homo_Digitalis_ 🔸 The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (@IFLA) 🔸 Internet Society Belgium Chapter (@isoc_belgium) 🔸 Internet Society Catalan Chapter 🔸 Internet Society Norway Chapter (@ISOCNorway) 🔸 Internet Society Poland Chapter (@ISOCPoland) 🔸 Internet Society Portuguese Chapter (@isocpt) 🔸 Internet Society Romania (@isocro) 🔸 Internet Society UK England Chapter (@ISOCUKEngland) 🔸 IT-Pol Denmark (@itpof) 🔸 Johan Helsingius (@julfmobile), RIPE Cooperation Working Group Co-Chair 🔸 Michele Neylon (@mneylon), CEO, Blacknight 🔸 @ow2 open source association 🔸 @Vrijschrift 🔸 @X_net_, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation #KeepItOpen #NetNeutrality #BetterRegulation #competitiveness #connectivity #Council #DigitalEU #DigitalNetworksAct #EU #EUCouncil #EUpolicy #FairShare #FutureTelecoms #IPInterconnection #NetworkFees #OpenInternet #telecoms #TelecomPolicy #TelecomRegulation #WhitePaper #EuropeanElectronicCommunicationsCode #EECC

Vereerd ben ik om @Iederin en @MyEDF te mogen vertegenwoordigen in een paneldiscussie over toegankelijke elektronische communicatie. Over twee onderwerpen waar ik erg enthousiast over ben: #EuropeanElectronicCommunicationsCode en #EuropeanAccessibilityAct Doe met ons mee!

I'm honored to represent @Iederin and @MyEDF in a panel discussion about accessible electronic communications. The discussion will be about two topics I'm very passionate about: #EuropeanElectronicCommunicationsCode and #EuropeanAccessibilityAct Join us!

One month since #EuropeanElectronicCommunicationsCode went into effect and @MissingKids reports concerning child sexual exploitation in the EU have plummeted 46%, crippling our ability to put #childsafetyfirst.

🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇳🇿 are calling on @Europarl_EN to protect children around the world by addressing unintended consequences of the new #EuropeanElectronicCommunicationsCode. As Minister Dutton has said: "This new Code risks undoing all our hard work". bit.ly/3bByOnH