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Democrats in the U.S. Congress plan to unveil legislation on Wednesday to reinstate “net neutrality” rules that were repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
Pelosi told lawmakers in a letter that House Democrats, who won control of the chamber in the November 2018 elections, would work with their colleagues in the U.S. Senate to pass the “Save The Internet Act.”
The text of the proposed legislation has not been released.
The Federal Communications Commission repealed the rules that bar providers from blocking or slowing internet content or offering paid “fast lanes.” The repeal was a win for providers like Comcast Corp, AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc, but was opposed by internet companies like Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc.
The Senate, which is controlled by Republicans, voted in May 2018 to reinstate the net neutrality rules, but the House did not take up the issue before Congress adjourned last year.
A U.S. federal appeals court last month held lengthy oral arguments in a legal challenge to the FCC’s decision to repeal the net neutrality rules.
In its 2017 decision, the Republican-led FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to reverse the net neutrality rules. The agency gave providers sweeping power to recast how users access the internet but said they must disclose changes in users’ internet access.
A spokeswoman for FCC chairman Ajit Pai did not immediately comment on Monday.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 10 2019, @07:22AM (1 child)
Uhhhmmm, yes, it has. In general, R's worship the Almighty Dollar. Not all, but it seems the majority of them do. The acquisition, possession, and control of money in large sums makes them a "success". The larger the sums of money, the greater a success a person is. It is the "duty" of R representatives to pass more laws to favor "successful" people, so that they can become ever more successful.
One of the most successful people in the world today is a person we all love to hate here. Bill Gates. That man figuratively stuck knives into the backs of more people than any of us will ever know. But, because he was successful, he was protected by any number of people who held power, including George Bush and his administration. Because Gates is so very successful, he couldn't have possibly been guilty of fraud, conspiracy, or any of those other terrible crimes which the other party might accuse him. Success has it's benefits, you know.
The worst of the R's operate under the ideology that money justifies the means. Much the same as the ends justifies the means, which many Dems operate under.
That doesn't mean that there aren't any good, decent people in either party. It does mean that both parties are contemptible, and you have to question the morals of anyone who professes to believe in either of the parties.
Now, do you agree with me that both parties are despicable? Of, would you rather argue that one is good, and the other bad?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by LVDOVICVS on Sunday March 10 2019, @06:01PM
Your argument that for your stated reasons x is bad, therefore y is also bad is illogical. But thank you for agreeing that Republicanism is a dying philosophy.