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"This resolution aims to ensure that the Council and Commission changes to the International Telecommunication Regulations further the ‘Union’s objective of, and interest in, advancing the internet as a truly public place’, without any reference to the importance of truly universal, democratic and inclusive access. The resolution calls for respect for ‘human rights and fundamental freedoms, particularly freedom of expression and assembly’. We agree. It also argues for free market principles and entrepreneurship, and defends more competition with the aim of ‘avoiding a new digital divide’. Concern is expressed that the ‘ITU [International Telecommunications Union] reform proposals include the establishment of new profit mechanisms... driving up prices [and] hampering innovation’. This concern falls short of the necessary rejection of such profit mechanisms and a reversal of these policies, given that some of their harmful effects are recognised. As an alternative, we signed a motion for a resolution, which was regrettably not adopted given that it was the only one to argue that ‘telecommunications and the internet are and should remain public goods, as this is the only way to guarantee universal access to, and democratic control over, them’."@en1
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