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67425, House rejects Net neutrality rules
Posted by jose3030, Thu Jun-08-06 09:47 PM
http://news.com.com/House+rejects+Net+neutrality+rules/2100-1028_3-6081882.html?tag=nefd.top
House rejects Net neutrality rules
By Declan McCullagh
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: June 8, 2006, 6:30 PM PDT
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just in 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.
Of the 421 House members that participated in the vote that took place around 6:30 p.m. PT, the vast majority of Net neutrality supporters were Democrats. Republicans represented most of the opposition.
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67446, RE: House rejects Net neutrality rules
Posted by wallysmith, Fri Jun-09-06 01:00 AM
horseshit
fuck republicans
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67520, WTF? Damn that is so fucking whack
Posted by BlacKnightSC, Sat Jun-10-06 12:18 AM
Republicans deserve to have their internet cut off for that one...
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67521, That's our government!
Posted by Nopayne, Sat Jun-10-06 01:52 AM
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