Most of Russian ISPs have uplink connection points to the internetz in Dusseldorf and Stockholm. So that's a way to no avail

And Russia and China would charge you $500m for satellite and launch services. I don't know about you, but I don't have $500m to spend on building my internet service, and even if I did I most certainly would be buying a Boeing or Orbital bird, not Russian crap.

As my old Grandmother use to say there is more than one way to skin a cat. I would organize a group to request that Russia or China supply an internet connection through satellite similar to Hughes Net or Wild Blue. Order their equipment hook it up and surf a way.

Well then comes the hard part... You cancel your service, live without internet while you organize your neighbors to join the boycott. Attend the town meetings and get them to vote to not allow throttling by the chosen ISP.

Democracy at work baby.

Yet another reason for this Irish voter to vote No to Lisbon.
If the EU are not going to properly discuss our rights then why should I bother voting for them.

...As long as you have a Democrat in charge.

Clearly you don't live in Australia.

Surely this qualifies as anti-competitive behavior? Where's the EC clamping down on this kind of resource monopolization?

@Patriot

Couple of problems. What if there's only one telecom serving your area? The capitalist ideal of "just take your money elsewhere" only works if there's somewhere else to take it.

Seems pretty simple to me.

1. The ISPs own the servers... they can do what they want.

2. The ISPs must publish which websites or services they will throttle and when.

Now they are free to do what they want with their servers and we are free to spend our money elsewhere.

They are not simply trying to control the flow of data across the net,but which data.
They are also trying to control,NOT just data flow,but european net USERS.

Slowly,but surely, the lights of freedom in europe are being dimmed,upon the altar of european central control.
We WILL end up with a ONE party state in europe in time & by stealth, through the creeping strangulation of personal choice & freedom.
The beneficiaries will be business & bureaucrats

"“The US seems to value the freedom to innovate more than the EU, and we could learn something from that,” he concluded."