Net Neutrality Act On the Agenda Again

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @01:27PM from the end-to-end-tubes dept.

blue234 writes "On January 9th, Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and Democrat Byron Dorgan reintroduced the bill popularly known as the Net Neutrality Act, and officially called the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. The bill was killed in the Senate last year in a vote split along party lines (Democrats yea, Republicans no), with the exception of Senator Snowe, who voted with the Democrats. Now that the Democrats have a slight majority in the Senate, the bill certainly has a better chance, but it still needs 60 votes to prevent a Republican filibuster.

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SAVE TEH INTERNETS!!! by mobby_6kl · 2007-01-30 14:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This bill is absolutely needed, because the internet has been completely destroyed by evil corporations since the problem of INTERNET NEUTRALITY was discovered by brave Democrats last year! Seriously, the closest thing to a net neutrality problem that came up since then was a DNS outage at comcast(or maybe another cable ISP). Of course digg was all over it, but that doesn't make it anything more serious than some DNS fuckup.