From the blog: "The Netherlands
on Tuesday became the second country in the world to pass network neutrality
into law, as the upper house of the Dutch parliament approved a bill
implementing the policy and granting Internet users new privacy protections.The
law is designed to prevent Internet service providers (ISPs) from
discriminating between similar websites or content providers, forcing them to
treat all data equally.The passage of the bill was announced by Bits of
Freedom, a Dutch digital-rights group that has lobbied strongly for the
legislation. Network management techniques that most ISPs use are still
allowed, but only to improve user experiences or to legitimately bolster
Internet security. The Dutch law also goes further by adding tough new
anti-wiretapping provisions, specifically a ban on the use of any sort of deep
packet inspection (DPI) technology by governments or private companies."
