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Well, it seems Chile has a new first. The first country to adopt full net-neutrality, without the watered down stuff in the EU, US, or Canada.


Chile publishes network neutrality law
Friday 27 August 2010 | 13:35 CET

Chile has published the network neutrality law in the Official Journal, El Pais reports. The document guarantees that internet service providers (ISPs) in Chile cannot interfere with content accessed by internet users. Under the terms of the law, ISPs cannot "interfere with, discriminate against or modify" content, applications or services unless this is a necessary measure to guarantee the users' privacy or protection from an internet security threat. Secondly, ISPs must provide parental-control services. Third is the obligation to provide customers with a written copy of their contract. The fourth clause is the need to guarantee user privacy, protection against viruses, and network security. Lastly is the obligation to allow access to all types of content, services and applications without discrimination.


Of course, devil is in the details for those that want to pick at it:



My take on it is the ISP's in Chile did not want to be burdened (i.e. did not have the resources) to goof around with EU or US style monitoring, recording, record keeping, and so on.

Some more info in this article:
http://www.lanacion.cl/chile-primer-pai ... 74624.html

admin wrote:...My take on it is the ISP's in Chile did not want to be burdened (i.e. did not have the resources) to goof around with EU or US style monitoring, recording, record keeping, and so on.

SUPER if true.

Even better, bail out of the OECD, repeal the USA-Chile TISA and never worry about bowing down to such initiatives again. But with "Economic Hitman" reality, probably impossible unless the Empire is closer to sunset than we realize.

The bigger issue will be how long does it take to chip away at it.

Honestly, I have seen no real interest in the political circles to monitor the internet. In fact, the new government I take it by pushing this law through is basically telling the IT world that we will take your huddled masses of oppressed programmers and internet users. Hopefully, with a bit of work, this means Chile becomes a super data center for the World looking for a safe-haven.

There was also an announcement recently about something like 156 cities that are going to get super high-speed fiber soon as part of the plan to boost IT investment. About frigen time.

Hey, story made it to slashdot.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/29/ ... w-In-Chile

That is so awesome for Chile. I'm more than a little concerned how this is going to play out up here in the US.