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[rastaX]

House Republicans seek to block FCC Internet rules
Source: Yahoo! News
By JOELLE TESSLER
Fri Feb 18

WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Thursday moved to block the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing new rules that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic on their networks.

With a 244-181 vote, Republican leaders succeeded in attaching an amendment to a sweeping spending bill that would bar the FCC from using government money to implement its new "network neutrality" regulations.

The rules prohibit phone and cable companies from favoring or discriminating against Internet content and services, including online calling services like Skype and Web video services like Netflix that could compete with their core operations. The FCC's three Democrats voted to adopt the regulations late last year over the opposition of the agency's two Republicans.

The rules are already facing court challenges from Verizon Communications Inc. and Metro PCS Communications Inc. Republicans in both chambers of Congress have introduced legislation to try to repeal the rules outright.

Republicans argue that the net neutrality rules amount to onerous and unnecessary regulations that will discourage phone and cable companies from continuing to upgrade their broadband networks by making it too hard for them to earn a healthy return on those investments. They also maintain that the FCC overstepped its authority in adopting the rules.

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., the sponsor of the spending bill amendment and chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, said his measure is "about keeping the government out of the business of running the Internet."

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[JackSpratts]

If ISPs block access to FOX, republican/tea bagger/conservative sites then ahm agin nootralitee too.

[philgorp]

how large is this bill? or is it one of those "we have to pass it first to see whats in it" bill. the only answer is to charge on a pay as you go model like canada has. they love it.(edit i just checked and they struck it down)
but heres a more relevant article. http://voices.washin...ce_provide.html

here's the txt of the bill. we can read it and make up our own minds. http://hraunfoss.fcc...FCC-09-93A1.pdf

[miss_silver]

philgorp, on 19 February 2011 - 09:28 AM, said:

how large is this bill? or is it one of those "we have to pass it first to see whats in it" bill. the only answer is to charge on a pay as you go model like canada has. they love it.(edit i just checked and they struck it down)
but heres a more relevant article. http://voices.washin...ce_provide.html

here's the txt of the bill. we can read it and make up our own minds. http://hraunfoss.fcc...FCC-09-93A1.pdf

The CRTC is packed with Bell Canada ex employees and Bell Canada is the largest ISP in the country. That metered internet bullshit is their wet dream come true and has been years in the making.

Used to be with Sympatico (Bell Canada) as ISP and back in 2002 me thinks, I dropped them like a sack of hot potatoes for they tried to pull that metered internet bull on it's users. There was a 3 month window before those measures were to be implemented and as file sharer, would have ended up paying 120$+ per month for extra bandwith.

They lost a lot of clients, went with AEI, a smaller ISP which was cheaper than Sympatico and never bothered me on my internet usage.

Needless to say, they dropped that idea when their clientele dropped their services.


I can spell corruption written all over that CRTC bill...They are overstepping their boundaries.