 Right hello, welcome to the Lightning Talks for today. Your first talk is on regaining the sovereignty of your router from Lucas Lesarita Hello, everybody. Thank you very much for being here today on Sunday morning I really appreciate that you took your time and your efforts to be here. I have a long day yesterday But yeah, so today we're gonna talk about a very interesting topic that it's not just a legal Boring topic for lawyers, but it concerns all of us. Yeah, so I'm Lucas Lesarita. I'm work for FSFE I am a deputy legal coordinator, and I'm directly involved with this campaign well in order to talk a little bit what is router freedom I divided my presentation in three parts so first of one we're gonna see How it affects each one of us or why it's important and then we will see also some basic legal aspects in order to to understand what is going on on Europe a concerning router freedom and then The third part and the most important one how each one of you can take part on On this activity and have your own free router at home because we think that it's very important for us to enforce our rights and to have Control and sovereignty over our own equipment so What is basically router freedom? Well router freedom is the right that every customers has To use their own equipment at home or at work. So ISP internet service or providers they Usually they force their own routers to their customers and they don't allow We customers to use our wrong on router So router freedom is the right that each one of us has to use our own equipment when we are Connecting to the internet if you want to use a router that has installed the free software inside of it We can so and there's a lot of arguments I listed the four of the most important one But there and we're gonna see that effect This four arguments is already enough to see how that is important for each one of us The first one is well freedom of choice. We are we have this right to use The equipment that we want This is our right that it has been confirmed and has been protected by European Right law. Sorry. So the second argument is that when we have a router a free router or I mean a router that we have free software in it a router that we can choose to use its Privacy friendly so we use that in order to protect our own data Well from this qualified audience, we all know that all our data our communication our encryption our backups everything that is connected to the internet to go through our router and if we have some problems with that of course our digital sovereignty is Undangered well the third argument free competition and compatibility right there. Well ISP has created an entire market around The lack of router freedom. So if you want to to connect the internet They can provide you a very simple router without Wi-Fi. Ah, do you want Wi-Fi? Then you have to pay more for that. Oh, you want to use more computers to access the internet You have to pay more for that. So this is very bad for the user and besides when we have just a few Rotors manufacturers in the market We start to have it a monopoly and they have control our technology and FSE fee is It's completely different about that. We as users we must control our technology Not other people impose in their control over our own equipment and of course the security argument The security argument maybe for a few of us is the most important one because if there is some problems with the ISP router or If they are slowly providing updates a critical updates we Having our own equipment. We can install by ourselves a Program of software that is more secured that is based on community aspect and not just what ISP Things so basically these are the arguments that We are trying to push on and try to educate people to say yes Let's do let's use our own router because this is very important. Yeah So let's talk a little bit about the legal issues I promise you that it's not going to be boring. It's very It's very straightforward to understand so since 2015 there is this net net neutrality directive and in the article 3d is that every Citizen every citizen every European system has the right to use and to choose their own equipment. They call its term Of their choice and then in 2018 There is a very important piece of legislation saying called European electronic communications code saying that all the definitions that public authorities and and private actors all the definitions that applies to Equipment into applies to rotors must be Must be adjusted to ensure net neutrality. Well, but there is a small problem And let's see. What is this small legal problem? Some ISPs are telling that okay users have the right to choose their own router, but In fact, router is part of the public network. So if a router is not It's not property from users. They are ISP Property and we think that is very bad This discussion has reached the European level and Has reached the barrack a little bit mark is the board of European regulators of economic communications and they say yeah well, router is part of the Public network and then users have no right to choose it because it's our property, right? But we at FSFE we have this been fighting this war for years and in Germany we manage in 2016 to pass the rotor law that says that in fact the Network termination point that where the network the public network ends it Ends in the wall. So in the plug where you can put plug your modern or your router and Everything that's inside your home. It's your property and you have the right to choose your own equipment Yes, however This is not like this in all Europe. So we have conducted a research in that FSFE and we have Seen that it's not like this. They're in other countries people. Although these rules are already Present in European legislation in in those Countries who have already implemented that this European European rules international Legislation there are is still a Lack of awareness. So as we can see here a lot of countries Users cannot use their own rotors. So ISP by contract regulations, they impose their own rotors to users and they cannot choose their own equipment. Well and How here where things started to get interesting because we can do something about it and you can do something about it. So We divided in two things if you wanted to organize an activity in your own country Here in Belgium. Well in every European country if you wanted to start An activity in a campaign for router freedom We have prepared a wiki with a lot of information Beginning from zero how to speak with ISP how to speak with the national authorities And public authorities and how to organize yourself which arguments you can use which counter arguments you can use. So everything is Is is written on our wiki and Our work in the FSFE. It's all about community. So we Don't we cannot and we don't do anything by ourselves. It's our commitment it's everybody working together and raising our voice and showing to to public authorities showing to ISP that We have the right to use our own equipment. So we have prepared it Please use it go there check it try to communicate with your public With your political representatives in order to spread this board and in order to have your own router in your In your own house So since we are in the University here today, I have prepared Small homework for for for you. So tomorrow Monday or this week We will try to check router freedom by ourselves. This is very easy. This is experiment I think it's very good for you and for us in order to have a more precise panorama About router freedom in Europe. So what is the homework? What is the task first? Contact your or a random ISP in your region. So I think everybody has Connection to the internet you have an ISP in your home in your in your city in your region call them send a short email or if you are not Pleasant to if your ISP you are you are planning to change your ISP Okay, just contact your future ISP sending them my email and say Number two, I want to use my own router. I have bought my router in the bay I have bought my own router on on Internet I want to use it. I am allowed to do that and Maybe they will say yes, you are maybe you are not and then you ask for their login data Login data to public network. This is very important because In order to have your own router Working at home. You need your own login data Login data to public network. So Send them a message and say I want to use my own router. Please provide it. Yeah, the public network login data and Then let's see what's happened and then if they say yeah fine Cool if they say no, you are not allowed to do that. Please share your experience at community.fse.org and we are most Pleased to help you to get your own router or to To tell them that in fact you have the right to use your own router. So if you Want to try that will be it will be excellent for to to see what is the router freedom panorama in your region. Well Yeah, I think that's all that I really want to talk to you today I really appreciate your for you to come in today and if you have questions, please let's discuss it For Yeah, so in fact The barrack the the board of European Regulators, they are analyzing the technical aspects and they have provided the guidelines in order to how to do that in order to not Harm the public network. However, we do think that with subregulations We can do that but not restricted in the right to use is to use their own equipment. It's perfectly It's perfect perfectly fine to use our own equipment in order also to not to harm the public network Yeah Yes Yeah, that's a good question because then involves another type of of yeah legal considerations Yeah, here we would like to To at least at least at least enforce the equipment to have access to internet Yeah, because TV it's a little bit different But when we are wanted to have access to the internet Usually they do this combo thing and they put everything in the same box, but I would like yeah, okay So for TV it's fine, but I would like to have my own private connection to the internet and then Things he started to get a little bit messy. So this Example here is would be to have the rotor for for the internet Yeah, I think we're out of time. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you very much again