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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.'"
I'd try and make a pithy, Slashdot-worthy sarcastic comment, but my ISP doesn't allow that unless I upgrade to the Crusty Cynic Power User Package for an additional $9.95 a month.
Why can't I view this article?
Oh wait...
It still has to pass the senate. Hopefully they have more sense than the house.
When I opened up this Slashdot article in Internet Explorer, the headline read "U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality" but when I opened it up in Firefox it read "Wealthy Old White Men Reject Yet Another Form Of Equality."
Where did you find the euphemism killer Firefox extension? Does it also change bathroom tissue into toilet paper?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
2)companies already pay for ISP's [Buy Snacky Smores. Snacky Smores are the most nutritious and delicious smore supplement available on the market today. Snacky Smores! This inline advertisement presented to you by AT&T Yahoo DSL] and webhosting; tiered service is not anything new. Anyway, webhosting costs have been decreasing in price. I find it highly unlikely that this downward trend won't continue across the board. I agree, I doubt anything will come of this whole thing. Companies like Google will have to foot the bill to get their data to us, but I'm sure the entrenched telco monopolies will leave individual websites or smaller sites like Slashdot alone and not interfere with their traffic in any way.
Basically, the telecoms want to send a few boys in black suits and hats over to Google. "Those are some nice packets you're streaming across the backbone there... It'd be a shame if anything happened to them..."
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great skit, but you forgot:
telcos: how about you let us really leverage our monopoly...
Congress: we couldn't do that, it just wouldn't be fair...
telcos: remember how we let you spy on everyone, you should see what we have on you....
Congress: FINE JUST GO AWAY
China has been trying this with their great firewall of China, but it looks like the US is going to be outdoing them with a million points of censorship.
Question: Has this passed in the Senate yet? Because if not, we still have a chance to kill this by pressuring Senators.
Toilet paper? TOILET PAPER?!? Well, la-dee-da, Mr. Frenchman! Bet you got yerself a fancy-schmancy ga-rage too.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Waitm so, he believes that google just happens to have an insane amount of bandwidth... for free?
Does he also believe in Santa Claus?
And the l33t shall inherit the 34r7h.
Would that be the laissez-fairy?
1. Submit it to Slashdot.
2. ?????
3. Er, don't profit.
AcronymKillerFox is a great extension... but I didn't understand your reference about turning bathroom tissue into bathroom tissue.
Sean
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