EU digital chief sides with President Obama in defense of network neutrality

Andrus Ansip, the European Commission’s new digital chief, has said that he is “really worried” about proposals that would water down the European Union’s new neutrality laws before they are finalized.

He said that US President Barack Obama’s intervention into that country’s network neutrality debate took a cue from the fairly strict net neutrality rules that the European Parliament passed back in April 2014: “All the traffic has to be treated equally. The Internet has to stay open for everybody. The president of the United States is using our wording — the wording of the European Parliament in the United States of America… It is allowed to have higher speeds -- but not at the expense of others.”