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Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US
xclr8r writes "Eric Massa, a congressman representing a district in western New York, has a bill ready that would start treating Internet providers like a utility and stop the use of caps. Nearby locales have been used as test beds for the new caps, so this may have made the constituents raise the issue with their representative."
I'm not sure who this new Bill guy is, but I like him already.
A lot better than most of the other Bills around.
"I don't have to think. I only have to do it. The results are always perfect, but that's old news." - Meat Puppets
Huh. This has been posted for a whole 15 minutes, and there isn't an influx of stories in the Firehose about how a horde of lobbyists from major ISPs descended upon Washington, DC like a cloud of pure, unadulterated blackness, utterly destroying the minds of all who looked upon them, consuming the very souls of any congressperson whose minds strayed from the wills of their masters to thoughts of considering this bill?
Wow. I suppose the major ISPs are getting hurt by the economic downturn, too. I would've expected far more efficiency in the matter.
Finally, some legislation to stop all those noobs from using Caps Lock!