Democrats Will Introduce Bill To Bring Back Net Neutrality (thehill.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Monday that Democrats will introduce a net neutrality bill to replace the open internet rules that were repealed in 2017. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said a bill called the "Save the Internet Act" will be unveiled Wednesday and will be introduced in the Senate as well. The text of the legislation has not been released, and it's unclear what will be included in the bill. Democrats have railed against the Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote to repeal the net neutrality rules, which happened more than a year ago. The 2015 regulations prohibited internet service providers from blocking or throttling websites or creating internet fast lanes.

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Trump overruled by the Senate already.

[Anonymous Coward]

Net Neutrality has something like 80% + positive support among voters. Trump is already having the GOP Senate OVERRIDE his emergency order, if he picks another losing position before the election like vetoing what people want he's just risking more of the moderates he desperately needs having another irrefutable example that he's all swamp, in the pocket of big money and not doing his job of protecting them. Not all Republican voters are completely stupid. Just most.

Re:Trump overruled by the Senate already.

[No Longer an AC]

Using Obama as an excuse to defend any and every action by Trump is not working.

I voted against Obama twice. I suspect die-hard Trump supporters were too busy watching reality TV in 2008 and 2012 to even know there was an election.

And while Obama did have his pen and phone, Trump is signing EOs at a faster pace and Obama never signed an EO or declared a national emergency just to bypass the power of Congress to control the purse strings.

which allows Trump to do that and more

Oh really? So, eventually you expect us to devolve into a dictatorship where we still "officially" have a Constitution and separation of powers, but in practice we don't at all.

you called us racist instead.

Nobody called anyone a racist (excepting internet trolls) just for criticizing Obama, but the fact is there was a lot of racism directed towards him and there still is.

Except he's the devil the voters know...

Interesting. I've heard many Trump supporters say he was the devil we DIDN'T know in 2016 and that's why they voted for him. They knew what to expect from the career politicians so they gambled on Trump. Except some of us knew who Trump was too and I don't mean from his TV show either. That's why we voted against him.

Re:Trump overruled by the Senate already.

[penandpaper]

Nobody called anyone a racist (excepting internet trolls) just for criticizing Obama

I remember the very next day after Obama was elected in 2008, I was watching CNN and someone said to the effect of: "What we learned last night was that there were not enough racists to beat Obama."

Forgive me, but Obama and the media were happy to pull the racism card on anything.

Read it and weep

[SuperKendall]

I do hope everyone here will read what the bill ACTUALLY SAYS, rather than merely the claims that are going to be made about the bill...

Re:Read it and weep

[dgatwood]

Unfortunately, this is true. It's a safe bet that it was written by lobbyists for their corporate masters, and that the American public will get totally and thoroughly screwed. I mean, I could be wrong, but statistically speaking, I'm probably not.