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Net Neutrality Repeal Will Get a Senate Vote In the Spring, Democrats Say (arstechnica.com)
Congressional Democrats today introduced legislation that would prevent the repeal of net neutrality rules, but they still need more support from Republicans in order to pass the measure. According to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), they will force a vote on the Senate version of the resolution sometime this spring. Ars Technica reports: Democrats have been promising to introduce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution ever since the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal its net neutrality rules in December. But lawmakers had to wait for the FCC's repeal order to be published in the Federal Register, which only happened last week. The CRA resolution would nullify the FCC's repeal order, allowing net neutrality rules that were passed in 2015 to remain in place. The resolution has public support from 50 out of 100 senators (all Democrats, all Independents, and one Republican), putting it one vote shy of passage in the Senate.
"The grassroots movement to reinstate net neutrality is growing by the day, and we will get that one more vote needed to pass my CRA resolution," Markey said. "I urge my Republican colleagues to join the overwhelming majority of Americans who support a free and open Internet. The Internet is for all -- the students, teachers, innovators, hard-working families, small businesses, and activists, not just Verizon, Charter, AT&T, and Comcast and corporate interests."
"The grassroots movement to reinstate net neutrality is growing by the day, and we will get that one more vote needed to pass my CRA resolution," Markey said. "I urge my Republican colleagues to join the overwhelming majority of Americans who support a free and open Internet. The Internet is for all -- the students, teachers, innovators, hard-working families, small businesses, and activists, not just Verizon, Charter, AT&T, and Comcast and corporate interests."
Except that for many of us it's still a "choose your poison" sort of decision as neither party represents us on enough issues important to us to throw our full weight behind them. In either case they champion one right that we want to keep while trampling over others that we also find important.
What you say is only true IF the network neutrality rules in question really mean anything.
The Network Neutrality rules being repealed were a slight boon to ISP monopolies in helping keep down competition, but that's about it. The two parties are arguing over the head of a pin; they are still essentially the same, when compared to just about any mixture of European parties.
I would say the Democrats do have the difference of being overly fixated on Trump; but thanks to a fair number of Republican NeverTrumpers I can't even say that. Looking at both parties I see one giant writhing mass of stupid with no daylight between the horrifically entwined outlooks. Every now and then the mass turns around and what was left becomes right, but that's not really a change inn them both being the same beast.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yep. Parties do matter.
One party is currently engaged in doing anything it can to overturn the results of the last election - including misusing the FISA system to use fake data fed to them by a foreign power interested only in sewing hate and discontent to justify using the entire US intelligence gathering powers against the winner.
And then ironically trying to blame the winner of colluding with that very same foreign power.
B-b-b-b-ut RUSSIA!!!!!
Fucking crybaby losers.