Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
The US 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 269-152 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.
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you're right...I don't. Let's think about this for a second though. The government isn't involved right now anyway, but the ISP's now are. How is that any different? If it's not one asshat it's another.
Either way this is bad for us...I can't see my bottom line getting lower, just my costs going up.
If I were google/amazon, I'd block access from ISP's trying to extort money. Then let a flood of customer calls into their call center change their minds.