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Senate Approves Overturning FCC's Net Neutrality Repeal
The Senate approved a resolution Wednesday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rollback, dealing a symbolic blow to the FCC's new rule that remains on track to take effect next month.
The final vote was 52-47. As expected, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Me., joined Democrats in voting to overturn the FCC's controversial decision. But two other Republicans — Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — also voted in favor of the resolution of disapproval.
The outcome is unlikely to derail the FCC's repeal of Obama-era rules that restrict Internet service providers' ability to slow down or speed up users' access to specific websites and apps.
The legislative victory is fleeting because the House does not intend to take similar action, but Democrats are planning to carry the political fight over Internet access into the 2018 midterms.
DannyB: Hopefully we don't all get slower connections so that ISPs can use the bandwidth to create paid prioritization.
Also at The Hill and TechCrunch.
See also: Everything you need to know about Congress's net neutrality resolution
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday May 16 2018, @09:59PM (3 children)
There was a line in "The West Wing" an eternity ago, where the temporary R-like president says something along the lines of "We are not going to go crazy just because we're currently in complete control, because that would give you ammo to crush us at the next elections". Kind of a don't-spook-the-center logic which has kept balance in the lawmakers for a couple centuries.
These days, Republicans seem to have completely discarded that. It's hard to blame them, when the other side is so incompetent at profiting from the consequences.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Kawumpa on Thursday May 17 2018, @07:06AM (2 children)
It's fascinating, isn't it? You can observe a similar thing playing out in the UK where the Labour party under a Corbyn "leadership" is failing miserably at wiping the floor with the most pathetic Tory government in history, during what is most certainly one of the most crucial political periods for the country since at least the Suez Crisis. With the government failing at every major political topic including Brexit, NHS, care, education and housing crisis, the Labour party as the largest opposition party can't gain substantially in the polls and couldn't in the recent council elections.
But what is the problem? Have politicians become this incompetent or have the people become even more apathetic than in the past? Or is it a perfect storm of a combination of both?
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @11:11AM (1 child)
Its the same party playing controlled opposition vs each other as they both keep raising taxes and inflating the money supply for personal benefit?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 17 2018, @07:34PM
how is that a troll, you dumb ass bastard?