This is Malcolm Harbour's comment on the Telecom Package:

What we can do at European level is to make a general requirement for consumers to have information about sites that are restricted, so you as a consumer are entitled to know if a provider is limiting access to certain sites and for what reasons.

You might choose to have a service-limited package; nobody has ever suggested that we have a general rule that if you buy an electronic communications service package you will have access to everything. That's like saying that if you have a bookshop you are legally obliged to stock every book.

(Ref)

I really am speechless... An Internet operator, compared to a book store? A store with actual books, that you need to order and have in stock? What does this man think an operator does, takes copies of all the sites and serves them locally (and we're only talking about web stuff then...)?

This shows, yet again, the politicians really need to figure out how things really work before they start opening their mouthes, or there will always to this kind of bizarre comparison.

And to think that people such as this one are in charge of legislating our future access to the 'net...