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[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net

posted by martyb on Saturday December 12 2015, @10:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the essential-feedback dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Noting the EU's horrible effort at providing a comment form, Mike Masnick and company have constructed their own page to help you tell EU legislators to not screw up the online world.

The Copia Institute is a new, digital-native think tank from Mike Masnick and the team behind Techdirt.

Don't Wreck The Net!

Europe is considering new regulations that threaten to undermine the internet as we know it.

The European Commission is asking the public critical questions about the future of our online world, but these questions are buried throughout a lengthy consultation survey that will probably make your eyes water. We need you to tackle the survey and make your voice heard. It's not easy, so we're here to help.

Go ahead, take a look at the public consultation. It's got five pages of oblique questions and too much smallprint for anyone's taste. But it's really all asking one thing: WHAT ARE THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD? Our survey survival guide helps you overcome the bureaucratic barrier and answer that question, because it's at risk of being ignored.

This isn't just for European companies--it impacts everyone online.

[...] Don't let a bad survey bore you into silence.

Thanks to one confusing and poorly-designed survey, the consultation is receiving very little response from the people most affected by this important issue--entrepreneurs, service providers, innovators, and the public. Don't let lawmakers shake the foundations of the internet without your input. The public consultation closes on December 30th.

Okay, are you ready? Take a deep breath, open up our survey survival guide, and make your voice heard.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @08:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2015, @08:23PM (#275497)

    So let's stipulate that the europeans will wreck the net, for some value of wreckage, and some value of the net.

    Can they do it to the whole thing? Enh ... not really. They can wreck their own net.

    So what happens next? Everyone sees how stupidly they wrecked it, and makes fun of them. Maybe some podium-banging about how other countries mustn't follow the european mistakes.

    Great. We need an example to point at.

    So please, euro-friends, wreck that there net. Wreck it good and hard. The rest of the world needs this.

    Take one for the team!