Net Neutrality Measure Fails in House

Friday, June 09, 2006

By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.

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republifundy blah, bulllshit, nonsensical stupid comment

Justsomeguy

Posted by vernon at 2006-06-09 11:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

Government of, by and for the Corporation. Labor arbitrage, trading technology and capital for Chinese labor works well for the elite in the short term, but ultimately fails. Endentured servitude and slavery are around the corner.

Posted by bayviking at 2006-06-09 11:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

the vast majority of Net neutrality supporters were Democrats. Republicans represented most of the opposition.

Surprise, Pubs pick profits over the people.

Posted by pingdum at 2006-06-09 11:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

"I want a vibrant Internet just like they do," said Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican. "Our disagreement is about how to achieve that. They say let the government dictate it...I urge my colleagues to reject government regulation of the Internet."

Unless he's talking about COPE, which he supports, which IS EXACTLY what he claims to reject.

Thats Republicant double-speak. "Do as I say, not as I do....and don't look at my voting record"

Posted by COMMONSENSE at 2006-06-09 11:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

I guess Tom DeLay's envelope wasn't big enough.

Maybe the interests of the people will be better served when the Culture of Corruption is out of power.

Posted by justsomeguy at 2006-06-10 01:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hey Vern!

You still trying to claim you Republitards weren't obstructing the cervical cancer vaccine?

Must suck to be you, always on the wrong side of the truth.
Bwahahahahaha!
What a chump!

Posted by justsomeguy at 2006-06-10 01:29 AM | Reply | Flag:

It's pretty amazing how many otherwise different groups (and otherwise different people) see eye to eye on this issue.

"Net neutrality was first described by legal scholar Tim Wu and later by Lawrence Lessig and Susan Crawford. Most of the major internet application companies are advocates of neutrality regulations, including IAC/InterActiveCorp, Ebay, Amazon, Yahoo!, Earthlink and especially Google. Software giant Microsoft has also taken a stance in support of regulation [5]. Non-profits in support include Moveon.org, Consumer Federation of America, AARP [6], American Library Association, Public Knowledge, the Media Access Project, Free Press, the Christian Coalition[7], TechNet[8] and others."

en.wikipedia.org

Imagine Moveon.org and the Christian Coalition actually agreeing on something.

It seems nearly everyone (except Time Warner, all the other cable/media tyrants, and, apparently, the Republicans) wants to preserve equality on the Internet

Posted by lacigolli at 2006-06-10 02:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

We can't allow Freedom in America. It's too biased toward Democrats,as anyone at Fox News can tell you.

Posted by justsomeguy at 2006-06-10 02:44 AM | Reply | Flag:

The Foxification of the internet has begun. Got to stop letting Americans choose where they get news, etc.

Posted by danni at 2006-06-10 06:33 AM | Reply | Flag:

republitards, blather, nonsense gysm crap blah, aarkdividgast plantain

justsomeidiocy

Posted by vernon at 2006-06-10 06:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

Got to stop letting Americans choose where they get news, etc.

Posted by danni at 2006-06-10 06:33 AM | Reply

Freedom of Speech is the first enemy.
-George Orwell

Posted by vernon at 2006-06-10 06:36 AM | Reply | Flag:

Homeland Security is now freely opening private mail.(43) Internet providers, universities and city governments across the nation are being forced to overhaul their internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement to monitor on-line communications.(44)

www.rense.com

...(speak well of everyone, at all times:>) says the guru

Posted by Bani at 2006-06-10 03:18 PM | Reply | Flag: