We're Pretty Much Screwed: House Rejects Net Neutrality

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

The best government money can buy.

I'm so very pissed.

You should be pissed -- I am, In fact, I'm fucking furious.

This bullshit must either be stopped, or overturned.

Declan McCullagh, via C|Net News:

[snip]

The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter 
blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to 
support it.

By a 152-269 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.

Of the 421 House members who participated in the vote that took place around 6:30 p.m. PT, the vast majority of Net 
neutrality supporters were Democrats. 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 turning point in the history of the Internet.

[snip]

More here:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6081882.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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