# The EU Commission is gutting net neutrality

- Type: News
- Source: European Digital Rights
- Date: 2026-02-04
- Original: https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-commission-is-gutting-net-neutrality/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/52504
- Topics: Human Resources, AI and Machine Learning

## Summary

The European Commission’s new Digital Networks Act threatens to dismantle nearly a decade of net neutrality protections in Europe. What is being presented as a technical update could actually give politicians control power over the open internet, create paid fast lanes, and weaken independent regulators.

## Full text

The European Commission’s new Digital Networks Act threatens to dismantle nearly a decade of net neutrality protections in Europe. What is being presented as a technical update could actually give politicians control power over the open internet, create paid fast lanes, and weaken independent regulators.

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