GOP Wins in Congress Effectively Doom ‘Net Neutrality’

[Hissyspit]

Source: AFP

GOP wins in Congress effectively doom ‘Net Neutrality’

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, November 7th, 2010 -- 11:56 pm

The stunning Republican gains in the US elections appear to have doomed efforts to pass a "net neutrality" bill that would require Internet service providers to treat all Web traffic equally.

President Barack Obama, Democrats in Congress and Silicon Valley have backed net neutrality but it has met with opposition from telecom and cable companies and many Republicans who see it as unnecessary government regulation.

With the Republicans seizing control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday's vote and picking up half-a-dozen seats in the Senate, analysts said net neutrality is not expected to make any headway in Congress.

"There's essentially no prospect of a net neutrality bill passing anytime soon," said Richard Bennett, a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-wins-congress-effectively-doom-net-neutrality

[FrenchieCat]

1. There we go.....

Unlimited Money from corporations to the GOP,
Corporate Media Conglomorate that makes shit up,
and goodbye Internet!

Trifecta!

Republicans to take all branches in 2012, here you come! :bounce:

Now, let's get back to whipping the President into shape...
that will teach us him!

[Dawson Leery]

2. The Senate will kill it, most likely. If not, there is always the Veto Pen.

[The Doctor.]

7. You might have this backwards. There is good news though.

We want to pass 'Net Neutrality' for the sake of keeping telecoms from regulating access and content. If we don't get it passed (which seems unlikely with the Republican majority in the House) then telecoms might start to 'dual tier' their service.

The good news?

- None of the telecoms will want to give up their competitive edge by charging more for the access that people already have.

- The most likely way that would happen is via legislation that would fall under the veto pen.

- Re-routing. I can imagine a number of freelance service providers would be able to bundle, encrypt, and redistribute access through their own domain with a fair deal of advertising money floating the effort.

Attempts to stifle information will ultimately fail. In the meanwhile, fighting the attempts to do so is pretty much our duty.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

9. MRS. GREENSPAN NEVER MISSES A CHANCE TO HIT DEMOCRACY

[Occulus]

13. Dual tier? Hah. Try THIS:

Lots of people would enthusiastically (and stupidly) embrace this sort of thing. That's $75/mo all told ($80 with the Social feature). That's probably in range with what people pay already today. They'll likely market it with something smarmy like "only the sites you want, 100% virus protected" or some other manipulative and deceptive crap.

All the telecom companies see are dollar signs. They'll throttle the speed of sites critical to them (that would includ DU), boost the speeds of corporate partners, "punish" companies providing domains to sites they don't like, and in general break the net completely without net neutrality. Never ever underestimate the corporate beast when it sees a pile of money- its instinct is to race in and devour everything in sight to get to the dollars before anyone else does.

:scared:

[Hawkeye-X]

15. I have a fixed price DSL for life for 12M. $51/mo

If they change it, I'm suing the hell out of them for false advertisement.

[Occulus]

16. That's a contract. Didn't you get the memo?

Contracts between corporations and people can be abrogated, violated, nullified, and abandoned by corporations at will, sometimes with the help of the courts and the legislature, be it on the State or Federal level.

No, I'm not being sarcastic.

[Posteritatis]

18. I'd be stunned if there wasn't a "reserve the right to change this without notice" clause (nt)

[somone]

3. What a missed opportunity

among so many. They should have done this earlier this year.

[FrenchieCat]

4. LOL!

You funny!

Did you join DU to piss on the President,
or was there something else on your mind?

[redirish28]

5. Hey we can still stop this. Look at what we did in 2 1/2 day with the

Olbermann event. We need to take that focus and tell congress we don't want Corporations controlling where we can and cannot go on the net. We don't want to have to pay money for more sites.


We just had a small victory against 2 corporations. Let's keep it going.

[tomm2thumbs]

6. perhaps a 3rd party will develop a limit-free internet and take away from the rest

we are at the beginning of what can be done wirelessly - hopefully someone with vision will see the chance to kick the rest of the players to the curb with a genuinely open subnet at a reasonable rate

[Lindsey]

8. I have hope that the Senate will kill it. n/t

[Posteritatis]

17. Such a thing would be quickly suppressed these days

Either by legislation or a wave of lawsuits (witness the pushes to outlaw municipal WiFi all over the place). If it somehow survived those the costs of building a whole new system would probably wind up in the trillions, since the entire infrastructure would need to be rebuilt from scratch.

[earcandle]

10. Nothing gets passed without Senate approval and we own the Senate now. LIBERALS OWN THE SENATE NOW.

Right? 

[harun]

11. We can trust Franken and Sanders.

[socialshockwave]

12. This is all part of their plan,

They won't govern. They will simply sit there with their thumbs up their asses and stall ANY legislation proposed by the Democrats.

Hopefully in 2012 the voters will see what the Republicrats got done: NOTHING AT ALL.

[Mad_Dem_X]

14. I agree. They're not going to do anything

in the next two years except try to block the Dems. They will have no new ideas of their own. Their goal is just to obstruct any Dem legislation.