   House rejects Net Neutrality 269-152
News.comQuote: The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.Of the 421 House members who participated in the vote that took place around 6:30 p.m. PT, the vast majority of Net neutrality supporters were Democrats. Republicans represented most of the opposition.The vote on the amendment (click for PDF) came after nearly a full day of debate on the topic, which prominent Democrats predicted would come to represent a turning point in the history of the Internet....So, what now?   
  Ouch, that is doubleplusungood. However, the rejection of a bill enforcing Neu Neutrality is not the same as the acceptance of a bill abandoning it. As I understand it, we still have the status quo, right? And, btw, don't vote Republican.   ;  Impulse 1: mass impeachment.Impulse 2: mass homicide.   ;  I guess we can only wait and see....   ;  I've never voted because I wasn't aware of anybody talking about issues I cared much about.This changes things.   ;  I agree that this alone is a solid reason not to vote republican. Like you guys needed more.But a turning point in the history of the Net? More like a turning point in the history of the US. I envision a lot of IT business leaving the country should you guys loose Net Neutrality.   ;  ... and yet another step is made towards a fragmented internet   ;  The status quo remains the same, right?   ;  Please don't use this as an excuse to push democrats. Both sides do a pretty bad job of running this country. Vote liberterian![grin]   ;Quote:Original post by LogicalError... and yet another step is made towards a fragmented internet