Ted Stevens offers "deal" on Net neutrality

[Rose Siding]

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Stevens has added a new section to his proposed bill aimed at preserving consumers' ability to surf anywhere on the public Internet and use any Web-based application, according to the latest draft obtained by Reuters this weekend.

However, the draft by the Alaska Republican does not include a ban on pricing content companies have demanded.

Earlier versions of the bill only called for the Federal Communications Commission to report on Internet access, prompting Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, the top Democrat on the committee, and some others to call for more protections.

Striking a compromise would likely make it easier for the bill to pass this year....The Senate committee is scheduled to consider amendments and vote on the measure at a meeting on Thursday.

Reuters

[xxqqqzme]

1. this is how much we scare them

They desperately want 2 control what we see, hear, read & pass along 2 others. Even more than the IWR, this is a line in the sand, we lose the freedom of the internet, we have lost everything...period.

[Benhurst]

2. I agree. The Internet is the last thread upon which what is left of the

old Republic is hanging.

"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

-- Thomas Jefferson, on the necessity of a free press (1787)

[karynnj]

3. Great Jefferson quote