Republicans Defeat Net Neutrality Proposal

LiquidEdge writes "A Republican controlled committee has defeated a bill that would have guaranteed fair access and stopped companies like AT&T and Verizon from charging high-bandwidth sites for allowing their customers to have priority access to them."

Comments

But, doesn't this make us as bad as the old USSR?

[Newer Guy]

Seems to me that WE'RE becoming the very same: "Big bad bully" as we claimed the USSR was back in the '60's and '70's.

Re:What AT&T has said

[jim_v2000]

The reason Cisco and Google and others only got a slap on the wrist when censoring the Chinese nets, is that the US republicans want to see how well it works first and then start putting it in here under the guide of the Patriot Act.

Haha...your post should have been modded funny....that's so rediculous.

Re:Wow

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

How so? The aforementioned repeated and unnecessary mentions of the specific party the editor chose to use, particularly in light of the intended audience for the piece. Ironically enough, he's getting just what he wanted -- extra attention for flamebait copy.

I think that's what this comes down to -- if a Slashdot commenter wrote that summary up, it would be modded down for being obvious flamebait.