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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RE[4]:Good thing this idiocy was rejected
by halfmanhalfamazing on Fri 9th Jun 2006 12:53
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---------If it's not one asshat it's another.----------
The asshats in the ISPs can be taken down. it'll be a hard job, but it can be done.
the asshats in the government can't.
Give me a really hard job over an impossible one.
-------------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.--------------
You were thinking the same thing I was.
RE[5]:Good thing this idiocy was rejected
by lpetrazickis on Fri 9th Jun 2006 14:02
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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.