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U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality
tygerstripes writes "A recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives has led to a rejection of the principle of Net Neutrality from the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act), in spite of massive lobbying from prominent businesses. According to the BBC, the bill '...aims to make it easier for telecoms firms to offer video services around America by replacing 30,000 local franchise boards with a national system overseen by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'. However, according to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, 'telecommunications and cable companies will be able to create toll lanes on the information superhighway... This strikes at the heart of the free and equal nature of the internet.'"
You have a very Starlinist view of soclilsm.
New Nutrality is socialist, in that it imposes a rule of business for the good of the people, and I think it's a good version of socilism. I think they understand the difference between left wing commie socilism and good old American capatilism.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Toll lanes on the information superhighway... wow... the big problem here is that the people who shape and pass these bills actually use terms like "information superhighway".
They have no business representing ANYBODY when it comes to technology. Why not find somebody who can display an understanding of computers and the internet instead of somebody who is fluent in 1996 buzzwords?