Net neutrality is now at risk

[kaygore]

US lawmaker injects ISP throttle into Obama rescue package

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/11/feinstein_stimulus_amendment/

'Network management' meets child porn
By Cade Metz in San Francisco

US Senator Dianne Feinstein hopes to update President Barack Obama's $838bn economic
stimulus package so that American ISPs can deter child pornography, copyright infringement,
and other unlawful activity by way of "reasonable network management."
Clearly, a lobbyist whispering in Feinstein's ear has taken Comcast's now famous euphemism
even further into the realm of nonsense.

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According to Public Knowledge, Feinstein's network management amendment did not find a home in the stimulus bill that landed on the Senate floor. But lobbyists speaking with the Washington DC-based internet watchdog said that California's senior Senator is now hoping to insert this language via conference committee - a House-Senate pow-wow were bill disputes are resolved.

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Apparently, Henry Waxman will support Feinstein's amendment, out of deference
to the MPAA and the Recording Association of America.

Tell him not to do it:

E-mail him at http://congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://www.house.gov%2Fwaxman

and/or call or write him:

In Washington, D.C.
2204 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
[phone] (phone)
[phone] (fax)

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Not anymore.

Difi said it was dropped from conference.

[kaygore]

3. Thank you so much for the update

[AdHocSolver]

2. The first step in the slippery slope of corporate hobbling of progressive sites like DU. n/t

[kaygore]

4. That's what I fear!

The Internet has been such a boon to grassroots efforts.