Blackburn to introduce anti-net neutrality bill

The Hill ^ | 12/05/10 | Sara Jerome

[kingattax]

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) plans to introduce a bill to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from enforcing net-neutrality rules.

She said on an episode of CSPAN's "The Communicators" on Friday that she will reintroduce her legislation to halt the FCC.

"What you're going to see happen is this," she said. "If the FCC moves forward on Dec 21…then come January you are going to see some aggressive work making certain the FCC keeps its hands off the the Internet."

"I will refile my legislation…to prohibit the FCC from enacting net-neutrality regulations," she said.

Blackburn, a member of the House Communications subcommittee, also mentioned hearings as a way to push back against the FCC.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed formal net-neutrality rules on Wednesday, pending passage in a commission vote in December.

Genachowski received support from Democrats and intense opposition from Republicans.

Still, there might be little the Republicans can do to stop Genachowski.

It's unclear that Democrats will be enthusiastic to sign onto a Republican bill blocking net neutrality.

One indicator to that effect: Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), who rallied Democrats against strict FCC regulations this year, commended the FCC for moderating its views in its most recent proposal.

Further, President Obama made a campaign promise to support net-neutrality, so he might be unlikely to sign such a bill.

[SengirV]

That you for this post. I now fully realize that you have no concept of how the internet works. Given your lack of understanding, your stance is perfectly reasonable. I suggest you investigate how the internet started, progressed and is in the state it is in now. The concepts you are espousing are at complete odds with the principles that build the internet.

telco’s charge customers for use of their networks. That should be it. AS soon as telco’s reach in to the info going through their networks(barring illegal activity of course), the internet is dead.

The internet will die based on the views you are pushing.

Again, investigate the information agnostic nature of the internet to understand.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

And you want to have government control of private business - socialism. Enjoy as government controls more and more of your life.

[SengirV]

No where am I saying government should control the business. The business is running in tune with the format the internet was founded upon(for the most part). What you want is for businesses to take an agreed upon neutral medium and monetize every bit(literally) of it while degrading the agreed upon infrastructure.

Businesses can charge what they want for speed. But when they start breaking the agreed upon structure of the internet, then someone has to damn well right put them in their place. If this was such a great idea, why not come up with their own network? They can’t. They are trying to commandeer the open internet and close their customers off.

Instead of the internet being a pay as you enter amusement park where the telco is responsible for it’s own entrance to the park, the telcos are going to make it a pay as you go in, plus pay for every ride, plus charging the ride operators for the privilege of maybe getting one of their customers to maybe stop by.

I can’t think of anything worse that could happen to kill the internet. But you’ll go marching to it’s demise with a smile on your face apparently.

[SengirV]

Why look at that. Comcast caught in a lie while claiming “Woe is Me”. Comcast rakes in hundreds of millions from it’s customers, and purposely funnels traffic through a choke point while claiming it simply MUST have net-neutrality stricken in order to compete.

BTW, Comcast offers colocation services that promises to alleviate the problem.

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15911.html

This isn’t “internet for free” this isn’t about corporations making a buck. This is strictly corporations spitting in the face of how the internet was setup, lying about how it’s struggling to handle the load, and trying to screw over it’s customers.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Cacique]

It’s not going to go anywhere. Obama still has the veto..