House Committee Approves 'Net Neutrality' Bill

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the US House Judiciary Committee approved a bill yesterday that will prevent broadband providers from charging extra fees to websites for delivering their content to users." Ars's response is only guarded optimism, unfortunately. From the article: "The fate of the bill is not clear, as there are now two competing bills vying for the attention of the House floor. HR 5252, the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act, was overseen by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and is expected to be considered by full House. That bill is seen by some proponents of 'Net neutrality as being too weak, particularly after a Committee vote tossed aside an amendment put forth by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) that would have enshrined the principle of network neutrality into US law. There is speculation that today's bill, HR 5417, could be proposed as an amendment to HR 5252."

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They neglected to mention...

[QRDeNameland]

The article neglects to mention a little known competing Congressional bill sponsored by the Telcos...the Communications Opportunity for Protecting Revenue Of Providers Harping About Government Intervention Act or COPROPHAGIA.

Basically it says that the Telcos can write their own rules and the rest of us can eat shit.