in a sarcastic op-ed that says the House, which is trying to stop net neutrality by not funding the FCC committee that is enforcing the rules they decided on last December. This is NOT an acceptable role of the appropriations process as it is legislating. Given that the Herald is part of the Murdoch empire that clearly wants to bias what people hear and see, it is no surprise that they agree with the RW House.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is mounting a last-ditch fight to let the Federal Communications Commission impose “Net neutrality” rules on the Internet. It’s time to throw in the towel, senator.
Kerry, who is chairman of the communications subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, wrote to the majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and to the minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), asking them to block a House-passed provision in the stopgap spending measure moving through Congress that would forbid the spending of money on the FCC’s December rule.
The rule ostensibly forbids service providers from interfering with transmissions on their networks.
Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell of Washington, Al Franken of Minnesota and Ron Wyden of Oregon also signed the letter. Only Cantwell is a member of the subcommittee; neither of the other signers is on the subcommittee or the parent committee.
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1319662