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House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com)
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the House will hold a vote next month on the Democrats' bill to reinstate the Obama-era net neutrality rules. "Hoyer said in a letter to colleagues that the House will consider the Save the Internet Act during the week of April 8," reports The Hill. From the report: The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines in 2017 to repeal the popular regulations prohibiting internet service providers from blocking or throttling websites, or from creating internet fast lanes. Democrats and consumer groups are fighting the repeal with a legal challenge in federal court and have pushed net neutrality regulations at the state level.
While Republicans have floated their own bills to replace the rules, many oppose the Save the Internet Act because it reinstates the provision in the 2015 order that designates broadband providers as common carriers, opening them up to tougher regulation and oversight from the FCC. Though it enjoys widespread support among Democrats, the legislation may have a hard time getting through the GOP-held Senate. The "Save the Internet Act" was introduced earlier this month by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House and Senate Democrats.
While Republicans have floated their own bills to replace the rules, many oppose the Save the Internet Act because it reinstates the provision in the 2015 order that designates broadband providers as common carriers, opening them up to tougher regulation and oversight from the FCC. Though it enjoys widespread support among Democrats, the legislation may have a hard time getting through the GOP-held Senate. The "Save the Internet Act" was introduced earlier this month by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House and Senate Democrats.
Nothing worse than an endless parade of bills that are voted on just to virtue signal, with no chance of accomplishing anything.
Would be nice if everyone would try to work together to solve real problems.
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I'm all in on net neutrality, but the Democrats are being really stupid about this. Why on earth would they bring this to bear when they already know the president will veto it? It's just going to make it less likely that the next congress will bring up such a bill.
Well for one thing it'll make it obvious who supports the American people and who doesn't. If he goes on record against Net Neutrality then it's another strike to be used against him.
Watch how the next crop of candidates running will be only too happy to show their taxes and school transcripts, while this self-described "stable genius" president is too scared do do either. How do you think that's gonna look?
I know it won't matter to his brainwashed supporters, but everyone else will pay attention and (hopefully) vote accordingly.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
the Democrats are being really stupid about this. Why on earth would they bring this to bear when they already know the president will veto it? It's just going to make it less likely that the next congress will bring up such a bill.
You have inadvertently revealed the game. Make sure to vote for things that are popular when they can have no effect, so that you'll not be voting on things later that might make the giant corporations that support you mad.
It's the same reason why neither the Democrats nor Republicans ever seem to get much passed when they control both house and senate.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
it's to get the GOP on record as opposing net neutrality. Right now a lot of the ones that run in unsafe districts will tell you with straight face that they love Net Neutrality... much like Senator Palpatine Loved Democracy, but they can't stand those icky bureaucrats misusing the Telecom Act to force it and oh, if only there were a law.
This is put up or shut up time for those schmucks, and with how much cable money and AT&T cash they're sitting on it'll be shutup. In turn that'll be an issue in 2020 that might cost them their seat and give it to a Democrat. If that happens enough times then the Dems will pass the bill.
This is how the sausage is made. Don't like it? Go vote for a Democrat in 2020. And if you don't like the candidates vote in your primary dammit.
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where the GOP oppose the will of voters. Get enough of them and folks will stop voting for them.
Most Americans support a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, ending the 8 wars we're in, tuition free college and even a federal jobs program of one kind or another. This is one nail in the coffin of the guys who've been screwing us over since the 80s (and that goes for any Dems who don't vote for it, especially in the Senate).
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Nothing worse than an endless parade of bills that are voted on just to virtue signal, with no chance of accomplishing anything.
It's not virtue signalling if they really do want to pass it into legislation. It indicates to voters who is preventing legislation from being enacted that is widely supported by the public.
Would be nice if everyone would try to work together to solve real problems.
Alternatively, the public can be shown who should be voted out because they are not acting in the interests of the public.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
We also need to make sure to remove protections from prosecution from Social media platform when they fail to remove unlawful content.
Nope... Censorship is wrong.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
>"The only real fix is some sort of instant runoff voting system"
+1000
https://fairvote.org/
The internet is doing fine without government terrorism.
Your faith in government meddling is strong.
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
But what are you really advocating? You're advocating that you get decide what a private company allows or does not allow under the guise of free speech.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Who gets to decide what is censorship when it comes to a private company? Do you get to decide? Censorship really applies to the government in that the government can't decide what you can and cannot say.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.