House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality

Charliemopps sends this quote from the National Journal: "The House passed an amendment Thursday that would bar the Federal Communications Commission from using any funding to implement the network-neutrality order it approved in December. The amendment, approved on a 244-181 vote, was offered by Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., to legislation that would fund government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2011. Walden and other critics of the FCC's net-neutrality order argue it will stifle innovation and investment in broadband. "

Comments

Re:Real Problems

[OakDragon]

Like making sure "Obama is a one term President!"

This could be the best thing for this country.

Keep the government out of the Internet

[jimmy_dean]

I support this. The government should not be in the business of Internet anything. I don't understand why people think that once the government starts to foster control over who can do something with the parts of the Internet that they may own (the private owners), that they won't also increasingly start to sway the Internet towards whatever they want it to be. I predict the government, if it gets more and more involved, will increase the cost of accessing the Internet, will reduce the tremendous freedoms that we have on the Internet right now without the government being involved, and will also reduce the pace of innovation on the Internet as well as the technologies that make up the Internet itself.

Re:whores.

[commodore6502]

>>>history has shown that truly free markets will lead us directly to monopolies.

Actually history shows the exact opposite. Even when monopolies existed, they were very, very brief as new competitors rose-up and undercut the monopoly. - For example the Standard Oil Monopoly had its back broken in less than ten years when new competitors arose in Texas, Alaska, and overseas. - Another example is Microsoft Explorer which has seen its share plummet from 95% downto approximately 45%. Microsoft Windows is also in a downward trend.

Free markets break monopolies.