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Screwed Again: House Rejects Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Thu Jun 8 23:52:19 2006
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 03:50:21 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sorry to interrupt the ever-so-interesting discussions on the
list, but this is actually important.
Sorry for the editorial comment -- now for the facts.
Declan McCullagh, via C|Net News:
[snip]
The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of N=
et neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies l=
ike Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbyi=
ng campaign to support it.
By a 152-269 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republi=
can leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendme=
nt that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into feder=
al law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sit=
es differently from others.
Of the 421 House members who participated in the vote that took place ar=
ound 6:30 p.m. PT, the vast majority of Net neutrality supporters were D=
emocrats. Republicans represented most of the opposition.
The vote on the amendment came after nearly a full day of debate on the =
topic, which prominent Democrats predicted would come to represent a tur=
ning point in the history of the Internet.
[snip]
More here:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6081882.html
- ferg
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
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