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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. Freedom doomed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Without net neutrality, the idea of open source governance may never even get a chance to work. Your very freedom is in serious jeopardy, since we are on the brink: do we go ahead and adopt totalitarianism-through-Facebook(etc) or try to move to freedom-through-distributed-governance?

  2. GOD DAMN IT by interkin3tic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the FUCK is wrong with congressional republicans?!?

    WHAT THE FUCK!?!?

    Say what you will about the two party system, corporate masters, spineless democrats, that's all well and good and right, and fuck democrats too. But I see ONE party that lead the way on two pointless wars, one party that's saying "no we can't possibly end those wars before the other side all dies, because that would be surrendering and we don't do that", one party saying "Global warming might be a problem one day, sure, but lets let other people deal with that and not ask anyone to sacrifice today," one party saying "deficits don't matter, cut taxes without spending!" one party saying "only rich people should be have health insurance" one party saying "only poor people should pay taxes" and now one party saying "Corporations SHOULD control what you watch on the internet."

    That would be the republicans, the democrats are just utterly incapable of doing much of anything when they're not actively supporting those issues.

    And finally what is wrong with Americans that they don't care about any of that?

    Next election, I'm voting for myself.