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Viviane Reding, the EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, says that an open Internet is “crucial” to Europe. But that doesn’t mean a little traffic shaping, service prioritization, and discrimination won’t be allowed.

In a September 2008 speech in Copenhagen, Reding told a network neutrality conference that “a cynical observer may note that in the end this whole Net Neutrality debate is about hard cash. Dollars and euros… This is just arm wrestling between big network providers and successful providers of Internet services.”

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