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US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality

Posted by samzenpus on from the rest-in-peace dept.

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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  1. What's Wrong With That? by extraordinaire · · Score: 0, Troll
    Can someone explain to me, in simple terms, why Net Neutrality is needed? What are we worried about? This just means, to me, that we're going to be able to pay a bit more and get a bit better internet experience. Similar to, if I want to take a toll road, which is less congested than the rest of the highway system.

    Why should Verizon, for example, be forced to prioritize gaming traffic at the same rate as, say, high speed internet for a Doctor's Office that is looking up records in a central database?

  2. Re:You overlooked something... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because every time Democrats do something bad, it's "both parties are equally corrupt." Every time the Repubs pull a fast one, it's "only the Right are corrupt." This is a remarkably consistent rule that you see around here all the time. It's being subverted by a previous poster and it evidently is causing minds to explode.

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  3. Re:You overlooked something... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ummm, no, not from my external point of view nor a view "sold" to me by "your own media and politicans". For a start, New Zealand is too small to produce all our own media for world stories, so it sources media from all over the world - BBC, CNN, Al Jazera et al. But personally, I don't watch a lot of TV news - I compare sources online and see what the US channels are putting out from their own feeds directly. It's mainly Fox & Glenn Beck that gives me an insight into how warped America has become. So if you want to blame the media for my point of view - blame your own. When I was revolted at Tea Party members hurling abuse at Muslim Americans in Orange County, that was entirely brought to me by YOUR media. MY media didn't cover it at all.

    If you believe that tea partiers are majority racists, then you bought the lies of the mainstream media. Congrats! You got trolled.

    I'd recommend not listening to Al Jazeerah any more, for one thing. NPR (who fired a staffer today for calling tea partiers racists) is a much better choice, and is actually a fairly balanced news source.

    The tea party (if you can make blanket statements at all) is not anti-immigration, but for immigration reform. You can watch the statement of beliefs series ("What we believe") here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTus_i2aZI