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Bill Would Ban Paid Prioritization By ISPs

Posted by samzenpus on from the treating-it-all-the-same dept.

jfruh writes In the opening days of the new U.S. Congress, a bill has been introduced in both the House and Senate enforcing Net neutrality, making it illegal for ISPs to accept payment to prioritize some traffic packets over others. But the sponsors are all Democrats, and with Republicans now in charge of both house of Congress, the chances of it passing seem slim.

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  1. Re:Democrats don't want this to pass by cdrudge · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was introduced in the middle of last year in the House, where it was summarily sent to a subcommittee to die. It had no chance as a bill with zero Republican sponsors ever passing the House, just as it will quickly die in this Congress.

  2. Re:Fuck the libs! by JeffOwl · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure where you were going with that, but the bridge to nowhere was sponsored by Republicans.

  3. Re:Forget these bills by guises · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly. There is a reason the democrats did not push this forward when they had the Senate.

    Nonsense. They did try and have tried multiple times in the past.