Net neutrality bill offered in Maryland

Not content to wait for Congress to act, a group of Maryland state legislators is backing a smaller-scale attempt at putting a Net neutrality mandate in place.

Delegate Herman Taylor, a Democrat who represents a county just outside of Washington D.C., introduced House Bill 1069 on Feburary 9. As of Friday, more than 20 of his colleagues had signed on as co-sponsors.

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Taylor's proposal, which would naturally apply only to broadband subscribers in his home state, stipulates that any provider who offers such services to the public "shall not provide or sell to internet content, application, or service providers, including any affiliate of a broadband company, any service that provides, degrades, or gives priority to any packet sources over that company's broadband Internet access service based on its source, ownership or destination."

That language closely resembles a concession made by AT&T in order to persuade Democratic Federal Communications Commission officials to sign off on its merger with BellSouth late last year. AT&T has since said, however, that it still opposes legislating such a requirement.

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I really don't know anything about it. It sounds like it would prevent de facto censorship by the owners of the lines or whatever they're called nowadays. .