The Pirate Party, Social Democrats and the Greens already want net neutrality. Nice of the Telekom to play the bad boy who will cause a net neutrality law.
Net neutrality wasn't particularly high up on the political agenda until the country's largest telco arrogantly announced their traffic filtering plans and started a public shitstorm.
Politicians may not give a flying fuck about net neutrality, but they have a good nose for popular measures that don't cost them anything. Pissing all over the already hated telco's party is an easy way to score points.
Well two of them won't make it into any decision making position after the next election and we know what happens to the Social Democrats in a big coalition...
I don't see the CDU necessarily opposed to net neutrality. They are not known for being net-friendly so this it seems obvious that they might be but I don't see net neutrality being in conflict with their ideology or provoking any other problems for them, at least not in a big way. There is no downside for security or copyright stuff to be aware of here, if the don't cooperate with the FDP after the next coalition the business side will also not be a problem. Supporting net neutrality could be a good and fairly painless way to make the more moderate parts of the party and voter base happy, which is something that becomes more and more important after recent dramas.
"Wer hat uns verraten... Sozialdemokraten" is a rhyme and means "Who betrayed us? Sozialdemocrates!" originally used by communist because the Sozialdemocrates never where revolutionary or anti-capitalist.
The slogan is used right now to say the SPD is very weak on all their positions and a fan of half hearted compromises.
>The slogan is used right now to say the SPD is very weak on all their positions and a fan of half hearted compromises.
Funny how pervasive the "progressive* party leadership has the will but doesn't know the way" trope is across progressives of all stripes and nations (e.g., Mr Obama's perceived capitulation on the so-called Public Option for healthcare). One could probably write a doctoral thesis analyzing the reasons for the ubiquity of the sentiment!
*Word chosen over 'leftist' or 'democratic' to avoid differences in meaning from country to country
