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Telcos Move Net Neutrality Fight To Congress

Posted by Soulskill on from the putting-the-money-where-it-counts dept.

Presto Vivace writes: "Public Knowledge is rallying its supporters after learning that some House members plan to try and add an amendment to H.R. 5016, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act to block funding of FCC network neutrality rules. H.R. 5016 is the bill that keeps funding the government and whose failure to pass can shut it down. The White House has already said it opposed the existing FCC budget cuts and threatened a veto of a bill it says politicized the budget process." Public Knowledge is asking citizens to tell Congress to stop meddling with net neutrality. In a way this is a good sign. It is an indication that the telcos think that they will lose the current FCC debate. Meanwhile, the FCC's deadline for comments about net neutrality has arrived, and the agency's servers buckled after recording over 670,000 of them. The deadline has been extended until midnight on Friday.

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  1. Ei4? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  2. Re:Don't worry, according to Citizens United by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Corporations are people too, and as we all know, some people are more equal than others.

    I wish I'd stop hearing that childish unthinking stupidity. A corporation is nothing more than a group of people. Imagine the consequences if we DIDN'T extend individual rights to corporations.

    The government could just read all the data on Google's servers after taking them.

    Is that what you WANT?

    No?

    Then grow brain, use it, and STFU about Citizen's United, would you?