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The inventor of the World Wide Web has ridden into battle for, what might be, the last chance to preserve an open Internet in Europe.

Briton Tim Berners-Lee has gathered together nearly half a million online voices to guide European regulators in their advice for the European Union's (EU) laws on net neutrality and to not favor big business.

The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) has to prepare a draft set of guidelines, which the EU will use to inform their laws and legislations on how the Internet is regulated. The BEREC had a four-day official consultancy period between July 14 and 18, during which Tim Berners-Lee launched a last effort to urge European regulators to support the everyday Internet user and not “cave into telecommunications carriers’ manipulative tactics.”

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/inventor-of-the-world-wide-web-sends-open-letter-to-save-the-open-internet-in-europe/