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Friday, November 11, 2011

It Was Close, But We Won: Viva Net Neutrality!

Today in the Senate there was a major win for freedom of speech and the Internet. In a largely partisan vote Senate Democrats defeated a resolution introduced by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) which would have overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) open Internet rules that are set to go into effect this month.

Though the FCC’s rules are not great, they do offer some protections for net neutrality on the wired Internet and overturning them would have been a huge setback for free speech on the web. During debate on the Senate floor yesterday supporters of the resolution railed against government regulation while opponents defended the rules saying they were necessary to maintain the openness and innovation that has allowed the Internet to thrive.

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5 comments:

  1. DrewNovember 11, 2011 at 6:50 PM

    So what party preserves freedom in America?

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  2. AnonymousNovember 11, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    Net neutrality lets the government regulate ISP's just like they regulated the banking industry causing our economic collapse. Anything the government touch's turns to crap. So it would be the republicans who are trying to preserve freedom.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM

    "We" as in progressive liberal Democrats won.

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  4. DrewNovember 12, 2011 at 7:35 AM

    7:22 Really? The lack of bank regulations let them run wild playing casino with our economy.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 12, 2011 at 2:28 PM

    Drew:
    The regulations that forced them to make bad loans is what crashed the economy.
    Net neutrality is anything but neutral. The government will be picking winners and loosers thru the internet now.Once more the dumbocrats are tinkering with the free market.

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