House Committee Approves 'Net Neutrality' Bill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday May 26, 2006 @05:39AM from the hold-the-celebrations dept.

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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what we need by gentimjs · 2006-05-26 05:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

If they find a way to word the legislation in a way that allows providers to respond to DDOS type attacks and block/slow/etc that traffic, yet will prevent them from engaging in lame tierd-service shit and collecting fees from both ends of a connection, then I will be pleased. Tho I wont hold my breath for that to happen....