Several ISPs and other communications companies in the wonderful country of Norway have signed on to an agreement for "Nettnøytralitet", or in English, "Net Neutrality. Even though internet restriction/discrimination is pretty rare in Norway, the companies who've signed on are just making sure they act before anything does happen, a wise decision I believe.
The agreement has three basic rules:
1) Users must be given complete and accurate information about the service they purchase
2) Users must be allowed to send and receive content of their choice, use and receive the applications and services of their choice, and connect and use any hardware that won't harm the network
3) The connection must not be discriminated against based on application, server, content, sender, or receiver.
There are more to these rules, including some exceptions and safeguards. The basic idea this agreement is supporting is that people should be able to freely chose the service they want to provide internet and use it, but that service shouldn't act as a "gatekeeper" of their internet usage for them.
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