At first when you hear about the plans the telecoms had in mind it upsets you. Then you watch the video produced by four eyed monsters and it really gets you pissed. I think Henry Rollins sums it up perfectly and sorta new age poetic Rambo.

New hope for net neutrality as Stevens telecom bill dies
by Nate Anderson

The Congressional attempt to update the nation’s 1996 Telecommunications Act died with the pounding of the gavel that recently ended the 109th Congress. Ted Stevens (R-AK), the aging senator whose grasp on the technology in question was definitely “old school,” won’t be chairing any committees when the next Congress is sworn in, and the bill he helped to draft must be introduced again next year to have any chance at passing?and that’s unlikely to happen unless Stevens is a fan of Pyrrhic victories.

Assuming that the new Congress turns its attention once more to the Telecommunications Act, the resulting product should look quite a bit different. The Stevens-drafted version included no support for network neutrality, but plenty of love for audio and video broadcast flags.

That angered groups like the SavetheInternet.com coalition, which counts such unlikely allies as the National Religious Broadcasters and the ACLU among its members. The group calls the death of the bill “a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet,” and notes that network neutrality is now in the hands of “what appears to be a more Web-friendly Congress.”

When the group talks about a [...]

Good thing that happened on the last day of the 109th. Who knows maybe next year the telecoms will have a crack at it again with five working days instead of three. Oh wait, the democrats took the house. What will happen as the world’s Internet speeds ahead of us and our fat money making telecoms sit and wait for the day they can control the tubes. Instead of throwing money at congress they need to throw their tax exemptions at the technology and bring us into the 21st century.

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