[Kictanet] US House rejects Net neutrality rules

Sat Jun 10 10:30:16 EAT 2006

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>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Maja Andjelkovic <mandjelkovic at iisd.ca>
>  Subject: [wsisyouth] US House rejects Net neutrality rules
>  Sent: 09 Jun '06 16:47
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>  House rejects Net neutrality rules
>  By Declan McCullagh
>  Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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>  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.
>  
>  http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6081882.html
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