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Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wonder-what-the-payoff-was dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Register, Senator Diane Feinstein is attempting to put language into the stimulus bill that would kill net neutrality. The amendment that her provision was attached to was withdrawn, but lobbyists tell Public Knowledge that Feinstein hopes to put it back into the bill during the closed-door conference committee that reconciles the House and Senate versions." Bad Senator! No Cookie!

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  1. Re:Ummm... by jackspenn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeh, I have a lot of friends who believed by "change" Obama intended to:

    su - President
    del /SpecialInterests
    cd /newUS
    ./configure
    make
    make install

    Unfortunately for them, by "change" he meant:

    su - President
    mv /SpecialInterests /opt/agenda2009

     and they never expected to see

    cp lobbyists /home/whitehouse/cabinet/

     or

    cp taxcheats /home/whitehouse/cabinet/

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  2. Re:How ridiculous. by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The hypocrisy of the democrats who ripped on republicans and Bush and now ignore it when they do the EXACT same type of stuff just kills me.

    My favorite was all the whining I heard from the far-left when Bush was selling the TARP plan by telling us how society was going to collapse if we didn't pass it. "Bush is just trying to scare us so he can raid the treasury!" they all said. I'm glad that Obama is above such fear-mongering to pass his agenda. He would never use loaded words like "catastrophe", would he?

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    I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  3. Re:I didn't know Feinstein was a Republican.... by hansamurai · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It shouldn't matter what opinion you have on net neutrality, there is absolutely NO reason this should be in the stimulus bill.

    Support the One Subject at a Time Act:
    http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/83

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    Reviewing just the first hour of video games.