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The 28 House members who lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to drop net neutrality this week have received more than twice the amount in campaign contributions from the broadband sector than the average for all House members. According to research provided Friday by Maplight, the 28 House members received, on average, $26,832 from the "cable & satellite TV production & distribution" sector over a two-year period ending in December. According to the data, that's 2.3 times more than the House average of $11,651.
The US has long applied common carrier status to the telephone network, providing justification for universal service obligations that guarantee affordable phone service to all Americans and other rules that promote competition and consumer choice.
Some consumer advocates say that common carrier status is needed for the FCC to impose strong network neutrality rules that would force ISPs to treat all traffic equally, not degrading competing services or speeding up Web services in exchange for payment. ISPs have argued that common carrier rules would saddle them with too much regulation and would force them to spend less on network upgrades and be less innovative.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:35PM
About $425 000, to be precise.
(26 832 - 11 651) * 28 = 425 068
Admin note: The post above triggered the 'Lameness filter'. For some reason I have to add some non-caps text. Are numbers considered caps by the filter?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:49PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Saturday May 17 2014, @05:34PM
Time to kickstart legislation then.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday May 18 2014, @12:30AM
You can vote but rich people will just steal the agenda of the elected.