US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality

angry tapir writes "A US House of Representatives subcommittee has voted in favor of a resolution to throw out the US Federal Communications Commission's recently adopted net neutrality rules. The communications subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 15-8 along party lines for a resolution of disapproval that would overturn the FCC's rules."

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[Twinbee]

Bear in mind that the recent discovery of bufferbloat we've seen inside networks all around the world could be partially to blame. According to Jim Gettys (who was the subject of an earlier slashdot story), big services are being affected by bufferbloat too. Here's the full article:

http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/bufferbloat-and-network-neutrality-back-to-the-past/

Let's get this insidious Bufferbloat fixed first, and THEN worry about whether we really need network neutrality or not. There are apparently many things we can do to enhance and optimize queuing and sorting of packets before we add another layer.