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Are there any examples of this happening?


What do you mean? I don't see the international community having ANY say on Net Neutrality. All the actors in the debate are American. What more do you want?


Each country faces their own NN battle, and any competent authority studies the examples of other nations, or they ask experts, who study the outcomes in other countries.

Including telecom lobbyists, who study how misinformation and complex arguments can help them win political capital to push their ideas.


But on the other hand net neutrality is 99% hot air so the international community doesn't seem to be hurt by the debate.


YES!

India in particular bore the brunt of Facebook's fortunately ham handed approach to pushing non neutral net down our throats.

And the success and failure, of the American system is used as a reference point to study Net Neutrality in India.

To be fair, the responsibly authority also uses references from interested parties, and legal examples set in other countries.

The TRAI (Telecm Reg Auth Ind) focuses on the best outcome for its citizens, so its relatively open minded in its focus.

At the same time, the Indian telecom Authority is severely lobbied by Indian telecom firms, who are now mounting their second assault on the neutral net.

And they are learning from their debacle. The TRAI is now asking questions on scenarios in which it might be a good thing that NN was not applied and so on.

Correct rulings in America, their reasoning, their supporting documents, the evidence and so on, will be used and studied around the world.

And I suppose that if American's so chose, they could look beyond their borders and see what other NN related rulings have been made around the world.



Maybe I wasn't clear; I was asking for examples of global infrastructure like the Internet being shaped by the whims of US politics and corporate culture, but the examples provided by Free Press are almost all in the US.


Ummm democracy? Capitalism? I dunno what you want man. The world is connected. We all impact each other. Europe impacts the US as much as vice versa, as does Asia, etc.




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