Sensenbrenner/Conyers introduce Net Neutrality legislation

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Strange bedfellows?


From MultiChannel News:
Sensenbrenner Offers Neutrality Bill
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By Ted Hearn 5/18/2006 4:38:00 PM
House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) introduced a bill Thursday that would apply antitrust sanctions against cable and other broadband-access providers that discriminate against Web-based providers of content, services and applications.

"This legislation is a necessary step to protect consumers and other Internet users from possible anti-competitive and discriminatory conduct by broadband providers,” Sensenbrenner said in a prepared statement unveiling his version of network-neutrality regulation.
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Amazon.com Inc. (www.amazon.com), eBay Inc. (www.ebay.com), Google Inc. (www.google.com), InterActiveCorp, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. (www.yahoo.com) issued a statement in support of the Judiciary bill (H.R. 5417).
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Sensenbrenner offered the bill with bipartisan support from his panel's ranking Democrat, John Conyers (Mich.), and Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.).

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The bill would amend the Clayton Act to require broadband-access providers to interconnect their facilities on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms; to operate their networks in a nondiscriminatory manner so that unaffiliated content, service and applications have an equal opportunity to reach consumers; and to refrain from interfering with consumer access to lawful content, services and applications.

[KamaAina]

1. Senselessbrenner must have stock in some co. that would benefit

from passage of this much-needed legislation, perhaps one or more of the co.'s mentioned above.

Either that, or he got hold of some really bad cheese... what else could make him do the right thing?