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February 12, 2008
Posted by Bill Herman

Net neutrality bill reborn

Today, Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chip Pickering (R-MS) introduced HR 5353, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (pdf).

For more, see SaveTheInternet.com or CNet.

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Posted Under Congress FCC Internet policy Network neutrality Telecommunications Industry Telecommunications policy Uncategorized

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  1. carlton laird
    February 22, 2008

    “Given time all government programs become a disaster.” We do not need another disaster, courtesy of Congress.

  2. Bill Herman
    February 23, 2008

    Government programs quite often become disasters due to anti-government types starving them, either over time or in unpredictable boom-and-bust cycles.

    The NLRB wouldn’t be a disaster if labor policies didn’t disappear under Republican administrations. The EPA could do its job if the right-wing elected/appointed crowd hadn’t slammed on the brakes for the last 7 years.

    And, most topically, Adelstein and Copps could do good work enforcing Net Neutrality–if only we the people would let President Obama/Clinton give them a third colleague who sees the difference between the public interest and corporate bottom lines.

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