♫ Genèse du Net - Jérémie Zimmermann et la Parisienne Libérée (english subtitles)

Actually, Net Neutrality is the Universality of the Net.

It means that everyone connected to the Internet
has access to the whole network and can participate in all of it.

Genesis of the Net

Datalove #2

In the beginning, Man created zeroes and ones
and saw that it was good.

So to bring them together
he organized a large party and created : the Internet.

Man, in his infinite wisdom,
wanted the Internet to be a place of sharing

in which humans could support each other, express themselves
without distinction of gender, religion or age.

But on a day, when Man was maybe in a bad mood,

he created the State, and telecom industry giants.

Some days later, the giants came together

to visite Man in the early morning hour, and preached onto him:

"Man,

some of your friends are well-supplied indeed,

but others are clearly broke!

From now on, we will deliver those packets with priority

to those who pay the most"

Then, around noon, Man received a letter from the State
- which had been created for no purpose so far -

which contained a list of words followed by the comment:

"You are hereby requested to censor all packets containing
at least one of these keywords"

When evening fell, Man reflected on all this.

An idea suddenly came to him.
He summoned the State, and told :

"State, I have decided to create the Law. And you will be in charge of it.

So engrave here, onto your most important wax tablet:

"Never again will the universality of the Internet be violated

Never again any packet will be discriminated

Never again a Zero and a One will be filtered or prioritised
against their neighbouring Zero or One.

Declaration of the Human Rights and of the Connected Citizen,
Article one."

The problem today is that industrial interests on one hand and political interests on the other

desire to infringe on this universality.

The Net must be neutral, the Net must be universal.

There are already a number of countries that have chosen
to defend Net Neutrality

They have written into law that the Internet must remain neutral
and that operators do not have the right to violate this universality.