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No Sir Mr.Net Neutrality

June 9, 2006 by in Politics,Tech with 7 Comments

The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.

By a 152-269 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.

Sorry Google, Sorry eBay, Sorry Amazon.com…you fought a good fight… but looks like your ISP’s can still stick it to ya if they want.

It scares me that politicians are starting to decide the future of technology.

via CNet


  • http://www.nolo.5thirtyone.com/ Dylan

    ” . . . but looks like your your ISP’s . . . ”

    Is that a mistake? Or am I just linguiticaly challanged . . .

  • chadillac

    that’s ex-actly hows you’d saided it… wright?

  • Patrick

    I think politicians should stay away from technology. They should use their time on other things… Leave my technology alone! lol

    I think it’s a mistake.

    @chadillac
    right, not wright. :)

  • http://www.jschramm.com Jason Schramm

    That’s not even the half of it. I actually watched the original bill discussion in the morning on CSPAN, and the Republicans played off the net neutrality concerns saying it’s in the amendment. They even made it sound like they weren’t against it, but that’s those darn Republicans for you. Pass our bill now, and maybe later the addition you want will get passed. And then when the amendment gets voted on: oops, I never said that we were going to pass it.

    But the Democrats hold some blame for being such pussies. They talk and talk and talk, and the Republicans sit back and stick to their simple messages filled with little facts. When a Democrat says the bill doesn’t do something specific, the Republicans say it is and to trust them that it’s there.

  • Jerry

    So Amazon & eBay have to pay for all the traffic they generate? Good. Net Neutrality is a joke. Nothing else in life works this way, even the internet NOW.

    Dial up is a slow pain in the ass & costs $10-20/month. You want faster,easier? You pay for it.

    Jerry

  • http://www.mgroves.com boohiss

    So it’s not okay for Congress to regulate the Internet…

    …except when it is okay?

  • Chad

    its not that they pay for their bandwidth… its a bill that would allow providers (telecommunications companies) to decide who gets the bandwidth. Lets say there is a big surge of traffic to ohhhh FoxNews and Rupert Murdock and his yuppie buddies by into even more broadcasting power… they essentially would be able to control bandwidth and could technically choke out smaller less popular sites… what if for every megabyte downloaded from file plant UneasySilence lost 1 byte of bandwidth….

    essentially this could allow a form of round about censorship and could essentially permanently alter the internet as we know it.

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