Senators expect a vote next week on a new resolution to restore the 2015 Open Internet Order
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and 32 other Democrats have submitted a new discharge petition under the Congressional Review Act, setting the stage for a full congressional vote to restore net neutrality. Because of the unique CRA process, the petition has the power to force a Senate vote on the resolution, which leaders say is expected next week.
The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to roll back regulations within 60 legislative days of introduction, a process that today’s resolution would apply to the internet rules introduced by FCC chairman Ajit Pai in December. Pai’s rules reversed the 2015 Open Internet Order, which had explicitly banned blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization by internet providers. To successfully undo the Pai order and restore the 2015 rules, today’s resolution would need a bare majority in both the Senate and the House, as well as the president’s signature.
So far, 50 senators have come out in support of the bill: 48 Democrats together with Sen. Angus King (I-ME) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Activists have targeted moderate Republicans like Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) as a possible 51st vote. The 2015 net neutrality rules are still broadly popular, which activists hope will make members of Congress wary of voting against them.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) told The Verge he’s “hopeful” that the resolution will find a 51st vote in the Senate and proceed through the House. “We don’t know how this is going to end, but this is part of an effort to get every member of Congress on the record either supporting or opposing Net Neutrality,” Schatz said. “With this piece of legislation there is nowhere to hide and there are no excuses.”
I don't understand why anyone would trust the FCC or Congress to make any good decisions regarding internet regulation. IMO it should be as unregulated as possible, including getting rid of the regulations that make it difficult for ISP startups to compete. The net neutrality issue stinks to me of propaganda to give more control over the internet to the FCC which can be very easily influenced by larger companies that can afford lobbying.
Gabriel Collins
I agree lanterned jawed man
Robert Collins
Let's get rid of those ones first, and then maybe get rid of net neutrality.
The Net Neutrality bill does not promote net neutrality, it's called that to trick you.
Evan King
There is nothing wrong with the principle of net neutrality, but that's not what the the bill or the regulations that were previously in place will do/did. It's about getting ISPs within range of other regulations and controls more than anything else
Adrian Gray
Do explain what provisions of it work opposite to it's stated goals.
Alexander Adams
Do explain what provisions of it work to it's stated goals.
Joshua Ward
The clear net content will be like tv content within 10 yrs. No extreme porn or bigotry. This is good for kids but bad for freedom
Juan Adams
good thing they're working on this stuff instead of widespread systemic corruption and high level criminality
Thomas Brown
The internet can be controlled by the government under "net neutrality." The FCC will have it. You're being played by a nice sounding bill pushed by democrats who realize by the time it takes full power they can use it to push their agenda and make sure sites like this, who spurred Trump support, no longer exist
Thomas Jenkins
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
Gabriel Martinez
this is another move intended in part to turn the following generation into soyboys too weak to oppose the ills of society
Logan Hill
The FCC already has authority over the internet. What's your point? And FOSTA/SESTA passed without the FCC.
Tyler Baker
If the dems want it, it's fucking cancer
Brayden Johnson
the real good guys
Justin Flores
It's bad for freedom because it's good for kids. How do you expect to have a population capable of the willingness to protect and understand complicated subjects like "freedom" if they're never ever allowed to experience a world outside of a controlled bubble that doesn't give one single fuck about their feelings?
Connor Moore
Soooo any word on how the House is looking? Or the President? I know this resolution needs to go through the Senate first, but honestly I don't see it passing more than the Senate. Congress-tier virtue signaling? Probably.
Samuel Jackson
wow, they really dont want to relinquish control.
doesnt matter, its a retarded law anyway and doesnt even help do what it's title implies.
Evan Rivera
Congress passed a bill to let ISPs collect and sell their customers' browsing habits.
ISPs can't collect tor users data because no DNS request in the clear and everything is fucking encrypted.
Solution:(if net neutrality is gone)throttle tor to less than 56K dialup modem speed to teach them a lesson and get them back on Jewgle Chrome.
Nicholas Bailey
Net Neutrality is already "gone". But it's still in a probationary period before it can become permanently gone. With NN already gone, I experienced none of the fear mongering about ISP monopolies. My friends and coworkers experienced none of the fear mongering about ISP monopolies. I have not seen any news stories with experiencing the fear mongering about ISP monopolies. Nothing. Will. Happen.
Jose Lee
Folks, here's why Net Neutrality is bad. This is an Obama legacy and in essence, it allowed the govt to ""legally"" suppress information and propagandize to it's own people. Legally suppress and lie to us. It's one of the brass rings on this pony ride. For comparison, think of what's happening in the UK right now. Butter knives. That would have been us in a few years; just some other frogs in a pot. So their plan didn't work because the President repealed Net Neutrality. Now we all get to watch as their now half-aborted plan spuds into the ground at high speed because it has zero legality/govt backing. You can see how their plan to manipulate us is all messed up now. You can see it. They're still using Facebook, YouTube and other platforms to take down their opposition. You can see that their news networks are all blatantly geared towards this. Their evolving plans on the Internet were all geared towards this. But the President took it all down with a pen stroke. I would think the next move would be to prove that the news networks are propagandizing against it's own citizens right now. That would make them enemies of the state. :) They want it back, and they're rounding up support for it and will stop at nothing. But now you know. I have a graphic that runs the details but it won't let me post it saying it's too big but it isn't. Maybe TOR related?
Nathaniel Ward
The internet isn't for kids, and shouldn't be watered down to their level.
Brayden Campbell
Anyone having a seizure over the thought that they may have to pay $5 a month to post pictures of avocado toast on instagram doesn’t need net neutrality as much as they think they do.
Jayden Davis
lololol i post my breakfast photos on instagram 364 days a year xD
But on the 365th day, I need to speak the truth, and to do that, I require absolute freedom.
Bentley Scott
Smoke and mirrors, bread and circuses. They're gonna fuck the internet sooner or later, one way or another. The free, anonymous transmission of ideas is dangerous to any political power, left or right. They're already recording as much as they can, the next step is forcing people into tightly controlled channels to make it even easier to silence them or control what range of opinion is allowed on the internet.
We'll need some sort of secure P2P system to speak freely before long. Even now, here, you can't speak freely. There's plenty of shit you could say that will get you v& in a heartbeat.
Lincoln Foster
Net Neutrality is choosing whether to get fucked by the government or by the corporations. The Dems side with the government, the Republicans with the corporations, but neither give a shit about the people.
Dylan Walker
In a sick world like this, we are forced to choose between government, religion, corporations, or society itself.
Thus you must see all four of those directions as enemies.
Not right, not left, not north, not south.
Rather; we must rise up.
Justin Harris
Fosta has had a much larger influence on the internet in the US than NN
Jayden Edwards
Tiered Internet is unironically a good thing. Sorry normalfags, not gonna pay for your Neftlix and porn anymore. youtube.com/watch?v=RgbeB79Dss0
Isaac Lewis
If you are against this you are a shill.
Joshua White
back
to
reddit
Xavier Butler
Sadly, they do it for free.
Colton Russell
False, repealling NN made the FCC give up that control. Also Fosta is under a different branch of government and cannot shut down or block a site. Craigslist being retarded and shutting down as a political stunt when Grindr still exists unfazed doesn't make their delusion correct
Jayden Anderson
And you're shilling for the government to control the internet. And you're doing it for free.
Are you really that afraid of having to pay extra for premium services like Netflix, Facebook, and PornHub?
Ian Lopez
He probably won't see a fee hike. We have a free market. Any ISP that does this will fail
Lincoln Campbell
Why is the Left so retarded?
Blake Ramirez
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Eli Morris
All the shit net neutrality was supposed to prevent happened while it was in place. .gov absolutely cannot be trusted; even if it weren't evil, it's incompetence is insurmountable.
Luis Young
ISP jews are gonna fuck it up somehow.
Leo Reyes
Go type that on backpage.com
Adrian Brown
Nope, it only made the FCC give up control over stopping throttling, nothing else.
It can throw the sites owners, moderators, and posters in jail for someone else's actions, which is objectively worse.
Monopolies and Duopolies, by definition, aren't free markets.
That's not what premium services are.
Carter Brooks
Where are grindr's servers located? That may explain the difference.
the term 'shill' gets thrown around a lot these days, but I really think we have an actual specimen here.
benis
lol benis
heh agree disagree
Chase Hall
USA. There is no difference.
Jose Gutierrez
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Liam Sanchez
every fucking time. how many bills need to come out called the opposite of what they do before people get the fucking hint.
fucking idiots are still like "oh its for neutrality of the net" just like the patriot act was something patriotic. literal retards
Samuel Reyes
Alrighty then, so who wants to guess how many shitty poison pills are in this, and who wants to guess how retarded the Republicans will be with their breads and circuses parade?
Lincoln Sanders
Lol, this petition is dead in the water.
Noah Myers
tard
Josiah Fisher
Do you understand how any of this works? Without NN corporations will no longer be able to fuck customers. NN is a fucking myth.
