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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?

    1. Re:What's Wrong With That? by bonch · · Score: -1, Troll

      I'm afraid you're not going to get an unbiased, objective answer. This community is wildly anti-capitalist and anti-corporation, even though the very computers they use to post with are products of capitalism. Nonetheless, Internet access is not some constitutional right; it's a technological privilege. A modern convenience. ISPs run their own private networks for which you simply pay to gain access to, and they should be allowed to regulate them however they wish.

      You'll never get an example of what exactly net neutrality is supposed to solve, because there haven't been any examples. It's entirely a hypothetical need. In the manic expansion of government that took place in the first two years of the Obama administration, net neutrality rose to the forefront as another way to centralize control of things that were once free and self-correcting.

  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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  3. Re:Enjoy. by khallow · · Score: -1, Troll

    When I read stuff like this, I wonder if any true "change" in political ideology has happened since the Age of Enlightenment. The US Constitution is one of the great works of that time. I see lesser men, such as yourself, as trying to destroy that work, just as they unmade much of the hopes and desires of that era.

    Sure, it's too bad that business, particularly for-profit corporations, has too much power. But they at least have an interest in society and its functioning. When I read your empty words, I'm reminded that there are enemies of freedom who'd rather have vaporous predilections like "change" (you couldn't even say "change" was a promise or goal, it's something that the "left wing" "favors") rather than a society that works and which we can be proud of.

  4. Re:Enjoy. by DigiShaman · · Score: -1, Troll

    The rest of the "civilized" world (Europe for example) is being slowly overtaken by Islamofacist poised to send your nation to the far right~ at warp speeds. Better get brushed up on sharia law as I don't see the rest of the "civilized" world doing anything to stop it.

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  5. Re:Enjoy. by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: -1, Troll

    Exactly ... telling a republican your version of facts is like telling a blind man he can see.

    In other words, it's lying.

    As to why net neutrality is getting killed : http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/06/comcast-execs-gave-large-donations-obama-democrats.

    I'm actually in favor of this. Killing net neutrality. Of course, I work in the ISP business. It's just another useless measure that does nothing but making life difficult for us, and has been sold to democrats as "more free stuff". Outlawing QoS. Moronic is indeed the correct term, but I find it fits very well on the other shoe.

    Have you ever been on a large ISP's network with QoS disabled (ie. a "net neutral" one) ? You can't actually surf on a network like that, but I'm sure all of you "net neutrality" experts can tell me why, and have considered all technical issues. And there's of course the tiny little tidbit that any reasonable piece of network hardware won't actually let you disable QoS (as that is moronic and *will* kill the network due to the resulting routing instability. But I'm sure all of these net neutrality advocates know why, right ?)

    You know, maybe, just maybe, it's the case that things like QoS have technical reasons, the result of hardworking people attempting to bring a usable network to their subscribers, and not just a conspiracy born late at night in Obama's bed with satan, hitler, stalin and few ugly female camp guards mixed up in a big messy pool.

  6. 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