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Wow...
That many of them have their panties in a wad...
This may or may not work but the floor vote will certainly make for campaign fodder for upcoming elections. I think the oligarchs may have gone too far on this one. It's wildly unpopular. 83% should have been a sign.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology...onsor-ensuring
A Senate bill that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to repeal net neutrality received its 30th co-sponsor on Monday, ensuring it will receive a vote on the Senate floor.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) announced her support for the bill on Twitter, putting it over the top of a procedural requirement to bypass committee approval.
The bill, which is being pushed by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), would use Congress’s authority under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to reverse the FCC’s rollback of its popular net neutrality rules.
“We’ve reached the magic number of 30 to secure a vote on the Senate floor, and that number will only continue to climb,” Markey said in a statement Monday. “Republicans are faced with a choice — be on the right side of history and stand with the American people who support a free and open internet, or hold hands with the special interests who want to control the internet for their own profit.”
Under the CRA, if a joint resolution of disapproval bill has enough support it can bypass committee review and be fast-tracked to a floor vote. If the bill is passed and signed into law, it would vacate the FCC's vote last month and prohibit the agency from ever trying to repeal the rules in the future.
Wow...
That many of them have their panties in a wad...
Wow.....
Along with 83% of the population. :facepalm
40 co-sponsors now.
the last two posters.
You'd do great in a communist state.
The other way Pai/FCC is screwing Trash/Repug rural base while encouraging BigISP to under-invest (more profit for Capitalists) is disadvantaging rural people as second class (technical) citizens, just like the Repugs keep blacks, browns as second class citizens.
FCC faces backlash for saying Americans might not need fast home Internet
the FCC kicked off its annual analysis of broadband deployment and signaled that it might determine that smartphone access is a proper subs ute for cable or fiber Internet.
In doing so, the FCC could conclude that broadband is already being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion, and thus the commission could take fewer steps to promote deployment and compe ion.
The commission proposed a mobile broadband speed standard of 10Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream, less than half as fast as the FCC's home broadband speed standard of 25Mbps/3Mbps.
"How can you possibly believe 10Mbps is broadband or that mobile is an alternative to broadband?
Please wake up to 2017 and
increase compe ion and
decrease barriers of entry for rural area broadband."
https://arstechnica.com/information-...cans-tell-fcc/
Pretty sure TB was rebutting WC but whatever.40 co-sponsors now.
You'd do great in a communist state.
Honestly anyone in the government who supposes net neutrality should be fired. Their cons uents clearly don't want this to happen and have said so on numerous occasions. The only reason why we keep having to have this fight is that some chode paid for by the telecom companies keeps proposing it. Those folks don't even have the semblance of representing their voters at that point.
Well, its a Reck post but whatever.
If it's what Chinook said then my apologies.
A misunderstood post in the political forum? Amazing!
Thanks, Reck.
As Senate Push For Net Neutrality Reaches 50 Supporters, Rep Mike Doyle Unveils 82 Cosponsors of House CRA
All Senate Democrats and Susan Collins (R-ME) line up to defend the free and open Internet.
Only one more vote needed for CRA to pass Senate and
take fight to the House, where there are already more than 80 cosponsors
https://www.commondreams.org/newswir...yle-unveils-82
Could Congress actually do some positive? I'll be surprised. BigISP's $100Ms talk loud.
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