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A decade ago the EU big telecoms lobby, #ETNO, pushed a lobbying campaign to charge popular content providers. Now that ETNO is pushing something similar it is worth revisiting why their proposal ultimately failed. 1/7 🧵
#ETNO pushed the idea of a "sending-party-pays" in the lead-up to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai. 2/7
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Many authoritarian regimes (annoyed with freedom of speech online) embraced #ETNO's proposal. Western democracies and civil society not so much. The US Ambassador called it "unworkable". 3/7 networkworld.com/article/216121…
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