There's some friction on the Senate Commerce Committee. Ted Stevens is a wily appropriator, and he wants to pass a piece of legislation that rewrites the rules for the telecommunications industry. As bitter as the argument has been online, it's been worse on the hill.
The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Monday rejected a proposed compromise on access to high-speed Internet networks and said the effort to pass a broad telecommunications reform bill could fall apart.Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii said the revised Republican legislation did not go far enough to ensure that Internet network providers cannot discriminate against unaffiliated Web sites or services, an issue known as "Net neutrality."
Inouye also said the Democrats on the committee were worried that the draft bill could help companies evade state consumer protection laws.
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Stevens offered a compromise last week to try to persuade Democrats on the issue of Net neutrality.
He added a new section aimed at preserving consumers' ability to surf anywhere on the public Internet and to use any Web-based application. But it stopped short of barring network operators from charging for access and service quality.
Ted Stevens has been trying to pass off a 'compromise' on net neutrality, which shows that there is real movement on the issue towards our direction. We'll see what happens. The mark up is on Thursday.
Keep making those phone calls to Senators.
Oh, and they still haven't fixed the Craiglist site loading problem for Cox cable customers. Welcome to a non-neutral net.
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