So are folks like the Christian Coalition, and Gun Owners of America. What's your point? It's definitely not a partisan issue.
"By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others ..."
Do you have a source that confirms CC's and/or GOA's support of either the Markey Amendment, proposed by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey and three democrat cosponsors or the Markey's standalone "Network Neutrality Act of 2006" bill?
This is most definitely a partisan issue, supported only by the democrats who naturally want to regulate everything they can.
The term “Network Neutrality” refers to broad, sweeping new regulations on the Internet that would put the government in charge of the structure and pricing of Internet services.Here is a PDF of Markey's "Network Neutrality Act of 2006"These regulations would prohibit cost sharing among network users, thereby forcing all the costs of network service and upgrades onto the end-consumer.
Additionally, forcing all dynamic, emerging Internet networks into the backward model of a “government-regulated utility” will discourage the creation of the networks of the future, and will result in fewer service choices for consumers.
By the way, if a bill is introduced by a democrat from Massachussetts, that is your first clue that it is probably a major-league stinker of a bill.