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Senate Votes In Favor of Saving Net Neutrality

May 16, 2018, 12:18 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated May 16, 2018, 4:06 PM

Democrats in the Senate forced a vote on net neutrality today and walked away victorious. Members of the Senate voted 52-47 to retain the net neutrality regulations put in place by the Obama administration that were later nixed by the FCC. The margin of victory was large than expected, with three Republicans, two independents, and 47 Democrats all voting in favor of keeping the rules. Though the bill has passed the Senate, it still has to get through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and, if it succeeds there, President Trump. Obama's FCC established firm rules governing broadband service as a utility under Title II. As such, paid prioritization, fast lanes, blocking, and throttling were strictly prohibited. The Republican-led FCC has largely scaled back those rules, preferring to let the industry govern itself with "light regulation" from the FTC rather than the FCC. For the moment, the FCC's repeal of net neutrality will go into effect on June 11. Democratic FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel applauded the vote. "Today the United States Senate took a big step to fix the serious mess the FCC made when it rolled back net neutrality late last year. The FCC's net neutrality repeal gave broadband providers extraordinary new powers to block websites, throttle services and play favorites when it comes to online content. Today’s vote is a sign that the fight for internet freedom is far from over."

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thebriang

May 16, 2018, 2:50 PM

Republicans...

Letting Corporations screw consumers for years.

I mean... How Will Carriers Innovate? (Unless they can sell even more of your data.)

Suicidy

So let’s give more power to the federal leviathan. Sow e can so,be a problem no one was having.

Great move. I’ll take my chances with the sh!tty corporation over the completely unaccountable sh!tty government.

nicolasl46

Carriers and ISPs have been innovating without a problem in the last couple of years, so don't let corporations feed you that BS.

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