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Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality

Posted by Soulskill on from the congress-shall-make-no-law-respecting-the-tubes dept.

99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) submitted a rider yesterday to a bill on military and veterans' construction projects. The rider would, 'prohibit the FCC from using any appropriated funds to adopt, implement or otherwise litigate any network neutrality based rules, protocols or standards.' It is co-signed by six other Republican senators. We all knew this was coming after the last election removed most of the vocal supporters of net neutrality and supplanted them with pro-corporate Republicans."

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  1. You thought the GOP/TP represented regular people. by sethstorm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think again.

    They just want more freedom to screw you over, lie to you about jobs, and bring back the days of Compuserve.

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  2. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop by spidercoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nonsense. With Democrats you're just screwed. With Republicans, you're super-deluxe holy fuck screwed.

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  3. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rebublicans are the kind of guys that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

  4. Re:You thought the GOP/TP represented regular peop by fishexe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rebublicans are the kind of guys that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

    Republicans are the kind of guys that would fuck a guy in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to admit to being gay.

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  5. Re:Still cant believe you guys have riders... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can't believe you guys haven't fixed this yet. How can a completely unrelated thing be tacked on like that? is it really just a congressmans whim? Everytime i hear the word "rider" in american politics, i think of that simpsons skit.

    They did pass a No Riders law, but then at the last second someone added a rider to it to allow riders if the congressman really, really thinks it's important to do so.

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