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upstatecajun Donating Member (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:55 PM
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House panel votes to repeal net neutrality
Source: The Hill

By Sara Jerome - 03/15/11 05:48 PM ET

House Republicans won another battle in their war on net neutrality regulations in a highly partisan committee vote on Tuesday.


A resolution to repeal the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules passed the Energy and Commerce Committee in a 30-23 party line vote, and is now headed to the full House.



Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/149755-house-panel-votes-to-repeal-net-neutrality

















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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:59 PM
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1. That'll create jobs. nt
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October Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:03 PM
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2. They are hateful people. /nt
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:05 PM
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3. This can't go through without
the senate, can it?
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 11:35 PM
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18. The article says that it requires President Obama's signature.
So hopefully he will do the right thing.
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toddwv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:05 PM
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4. Net Neutrality is an excellent example of how the right has no clue about what they are talking.
I have no doubt that if it was repealed and the broadband providers started throttling bandwidth intensive sites or blocking them altogether, these idiots would turn right around and blame the Democrats and their moronic voters would be "Oh yeah, it's definitely the Democrats' fault!"
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:15 PM
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6. They dont care.
They control what comes to you via your TV. So throttling other venues of communication is just peachy in their book.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:05 PM
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5. Do they believe that (R)s will receive special pricing and packages?
The stoopid is so strong.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:48 PM
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10. You're missing the point
Right wing crap like sludge, world nut daily, redstate.com, freeperville, etc. ill come gushing through. Truthout, truthdig, DU, alternet will trickle. The internet will be just like TV and radio. And the morans here will claim it's because that' what people want.
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wilt the stilt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:23 PM
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7. Morons
ask any repub what net neutrality is and I bet they can't answer it.
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:25 PM
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8. If the Republicans kill net neutrality - you will see the internet community go to war
with the politicians. It's that simple. Can you imagine having to pay for certain internet "packages" like you do with cable?

If they come for the internet - I predict you will see the start of a full scale revolution in this country.


DO YOU WANT YOUR INTERNET TO LOOK LIKE THIS?


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plumbob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:29 PM
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9. Fuckers! That just about leaves me speechless.
And I guess that's what they're after.




Man oh man, something bad is brewing.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:49 PM
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11. Nah
we haven't fought back yet. We never will.
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plumbob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:55 PM
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12. Well, I'm older now, but that FBI file I collected in 1968 had
something in it.

Youthful hijinks; that's the ticket. Wonder how old you have to be before that no longer excuses bad behavior?
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orbitalman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:43 PM
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13. Damn them.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:51 PM
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14. I wish we could neutralize them. nt
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:53 PM
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15. No no no! I've written my congressional rep.
We need them to resist.
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Charleston Chew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:57 PM
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16.  Republicans Have Been Bought by Cable Companies
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 11:24 PM
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17. except, of course, that all of those companies give more to Democrats
Edited on Tue Mar-15-11 11:30 PM by onenote
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/industry.php?txt=B02&cycle=2010

Did Comcast's PAC give $10K to Upton and Walden? Yes. They also gave $10K to Waxman and Markey. The worst nightmare for the cable industry in recent years was Kevin Martin, a republican.

The reasons that the repubs are opposed to net neutrality has a lot more to do with their efforts to raise $$ from rank and file members who react with knee jerk opposition to any government regulation than it does to the amounts that they are getting in campaign contributions from the companies impacted by net neutrality.
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Charleston Chew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 11:58 PM
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19. Sen. Franken - Net Neutrality First Amendment Issue
__________
Ben Mankiewicz and Wes Clark on Senator Al Franken's SXSW interview with TechCrunch on how Net Neutrality is the biggest First Amendment issue of our time.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x563754
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smoalne Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 06:34 AM
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20. the last unlimited limited resource
Until we start being able to communicate telepathically I
think that the internet is the greatest information resource
available currently.  The avarice that motivates big
businesses to try and both pay-limit our access is downright
demoralizing.  Sure, it's just another dollar to them, but
what about the greater impact limiting net-neutrality rules
will have?!  Look, for example, at the repeal of the
glass-seagall act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act ; in
effect, this legislation created a sandbox for banks to play
around in with their derivatives and whatnot and kept all that
funny business restricted to limit the impact a market
correction would have on the overall economy.  When it was
repealed, the industry went buck-wild crazy and the end result
was the banking/financial crisis of the past couple of years (
I think the recession started in 2009? ) This, to me, goes to
show that big business can't be trusted with the keys to the
market.  They need to be yoked by some sort of regulations or
stupid shit is going to go down.  Furthermore, by deregulating
the market the government would be providing ISPs a green
light to censor content.  Thats not what the internet was
developed for!  Its supposed to be a place where everyone is
free to access all the information on any topic at any time. 
Look at what kind of an uproar egypt's turning off the
internet caused !  In effect, removing net neutrality rules
and defanging the FCC will shut down certain areas of the
internet by limiting the speed/access consumers have to
certain servers.  We cant allow that to happen.  I would like
to urge anyone who read this to please email your
representatives in the senate and president Obama urging them
to veto any legislation that strips the FCC of it's power to
regulate the internet !  
it's lovely to play without rules until someone gets hurt 
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 07:27 AM
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21. Welcome to DU!
I like what you say, but we tend
to use paragraphs here.

Easier on the brain!!

:hi:
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 12:03 PM
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22. We control the vertical. We control the horizontal.
:puke:
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lark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 04:35 PM
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23. Fuck them
& their little dogs too. How can one group of people be so persistently venal and hateful and NEVER do the right thing?
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 04:55 PM
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24. Hold it, I'm confused. What exactly are they repealing?
Were the Obama admin's proposed regs (which fell FAR short of actually protecting net neutrality) formally adopted, and is that what they repealed? Or something else?
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