Net Neutrality Bill Sails Through the House But Faces an Uncertain Political Future (washingtonpost.com)

House lawmakers on Wednesday approved a Democrat-backed bill (alternative source) that would restore rules requiring AT&T, Verizon and other Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally, marking an early step toward reversing one of the most significant deregulatory moves of the Trump era. From a report: But the net neutrality measure is likely to stall from here, given strong Republican opposition in the GOP-controlled Senate and the White House, where aides to President Trump this week recommended that he veto the legislation if it ever reaches his desk. The House's proposal, which passed by a vote of 232-190, would reinstate federal regulations that had banned AT&T, Verizon and other broadband providers from blocking or slowing down customers' access to websites. Adopted in 2015 during the Obama administration, these net neutrality protections had the backing of tech giants and startups as well as consumer advocacy groups, which together argued that strong federal open Internet protections were necessary to preserve competition and allow consumers unfettered access to movies, music and other content of their choice.

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Voting matters!

[Ksevio]

For all the people that say both parties are the same, here's a clear difference in policy.

Unless you're against Net Neutrality, don't vote for the GOP next cycle

Re:Voting matters!

[flippy]

First of all, the link you provided is an opinion piece. I checked that when I read "There is no medical justification for any abortion, period" in the text of the piece.

At no point in the piece you linked to does it describe anything like "they birth the baby as normal and then jam a spike through its brain to kill it".

For the record, I'm both pro-life and pro-choice. I believe that in most cases, abortion is morally wrong, but I also don't believe it's my place to tell other people what to do when it comes to doing something that has been deemed legal.

Re:Voting matters!

[Rick Schumann]

" 'free and on-demand' full-term and post-birth 'abortions' the democrats are pushing.."
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK: https://boards.4chan.org/pol
Tired of seeing you White Nationalist/Republican/Stormfront/Infowars trolls shitting up everything everywhere. Go back to your containment unit and stay there, damnit.

Sails through Democrats but STOPPED

[Anonymous Coward]

It's going to be stopped by the Senate because Mitch McConnell has never denied being bribed by the telco/ISP industry. He has been bribed by the Coal industry - he's the one who started the lie about the "War on Coal" and then backtracked.

I haven't seen anything that Mitch has done for the people of Kentucky. Nothing. Plenty for the moneyed interests that back him - but nothing for the average Kentuckian.

What does that tell you?

Mitch sure loves his private jet - how do you afford that on a Senate Majority Leader's pay?

Re:You're a lazy whiner

[MachineShedFred]

Really.

So in order to get around a bad-faith company abusing their market position, I should conduct a multi-hundred-thousand dollar transaction to sell my house, pack up all my earthly belongings at financial and time expense, and move to where another company may or may not be abusing their monopoly position already?

There is a non-zero probability that you are a massive idiot.

Re:Centralized political solution to Decentralizat

[MachineShedFred]

For many people cable really is the only viable Internet service method. DSL bandwidth isn't adequate unless you live very close to the DSLAM, and wireless is way too expensive.

Because building out a cable network is massively expensive as well as a bureaucratic nightmare, it basically means that incumbent operators are de facto monopolies, even without the monopoly contract.

Remember when Google was trying to throw billions of dollars around making city-wide fiber networks, and then gave up? Yeah, if they can't get it done, what chance does some small-time operation with orders of magnitude less capital and political might?