The internet is SAVED. At least for a while.

[techs]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/28/net_neutrality_commerce_vote/print.html

The final attempt this session to give the United States regulator more discretion over the deployment, and potential abuse of broadband, has failed.

A "net neutrality" amendment to the telecommunications reform bill failed to pass the House Energy and Commerce committee by 34 votes to 22 yesterday.





One of the most deceptive things about this attempt was they called the move to allow ISP's to give more bandwidth to sites that pay them for it was calling it "net neutrality".
So at least til another session of Congress the internet is saved.

 

[AAjax]

Hurrah!!!

Till next time....

 

[ViRGE]

Why are you cheering? This is bad, the internet isn't saved, it's one step closer to destruction.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I agree, based on my reading of the article, the net neutrality people lost... and thus the internet is NOT saved.

Techs, read another article. The Tele-Comm carriers WON. They now will be allowed to change more to some web sites than others.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Look again: This is the GOOD bill. It was DEFEATED. Sad sad day.

 

[dchakrab]

I agree. I've seen this attitude taken before, where everyone was happy about the fact that we saved the internet. Actually, we lost it. The net neutrality amendment was defeated.

Legislators like Bobby Rush are responsible for this...and they claim they're doing this because their constituents demand lower cable and phone bills. How exactly does putting more money in the telcos pockets (and destroying the internet as we know it) help the poor people he's claiming to represent? And does the fact that SBC / AT&T contributed $1 million to his pet charity have any bearing on this issue?

Public condemnation of the legislators who sold us out is the only answer. They need to put on the spot. If you've got five minutes, visit savetheinternet.com and figure out whether your legislators deserve condemnation or congratulations on their stance, and then call their offices. It's really, really important that people do this...and yet, no one does. We're all happy to post remarks here, but no one really ends up making that call. Kind of sad.

Dave.