EU Parliament: save our freedoms

Open Rights Group and La Quadrature are calling on the EU Parliament to save our right to a free trial, to stop Mandelson’s plans for disconnection without trial: amendment 138 currently states that:

“No restriction may be imposed on the fundamental rights and freedoms of end-users, without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities.”

Malcolm Harbour and Rapporteur Catherine Trautmann are leading the negotiations on behalf of the EU Parliament. If they win, the UK government will be stopped from their current plan to disconnect people after a number of accusations of copyright infringement unless they “appeal” to an “ombudsman”.

“In our societies, access to the Internet is so instrumental to people’s ability to communicate with each other that restricting or limiting this access cannot be decided by a company or even an executive agency. Only a fair trial by the judicial authority guarantees that citizens’ rights will be respected. It is now Catherine Trautmann’s duty to ensure that amendment 138 will protect citizens against the arbitrary blocking or limiting of their Internet access.” concludes Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson for La Quadrature du Net.

Act now

Email your MP, blog about it, tweet Help the #EU save internet freedoms and stop #threestrikes : defend Amendment 138 now! http://bit.ly/3l5jQB

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