Net Neutrality to Win Big on Capitol Hill? 154
The New York Times has weighed in again on Net Neutrality, this time with a hopeful message of change in the near future due to the shift of power in the House and Senate. The opinion piece takes a look at Ron Wyden in the Senate and Edward Markey in the House who have both promised to lead the charge to pass a net neutrality bill in the coming months. Lessig, on the other hand, has a somewhat more cynical view of the new Congress.
Re:Balance of power (Score:3, Informative)
It's still that way, it's always been that way, and for the foreseeable future I think I can safely say that we're still not going to trust them enough to let those rascals get together any more often than that.
Re:Balance of power (Score:5, Informative)
Please explain to me how legislation to protect equal access and prevent multi-tier implementations that favor big business and big government are a un-Constitutional power grab. After all, conceptually, net neutrality goes far back in US history to the mid 1800's to preserve equal access to telegraph lines with the only exception being made for war or emergency purposes. The purpose was to encourage impartial use of the new resource and promote economic development in a democratic manner. I think that perhaps you are confused about the status of the current proposal to break up limits on net neutrality.
Re:Vetos (Score:5, Informative)
Wikipedia says you're wrong [wikipedia.org].
Edward Markey (Score:4, Informative)
Net neutrality goes on the back burner (Score:4, Informative)
And to think we were so close to having Berman promote himself to where he wouldn't be able to do any damage by chairing whatever foreign relations committee it was he was looking at. We would have had Rick Boucher chairing this committee, which would have been a serious victory for fair use advocates worldwide.
I wonder how much the content cabal paid Berman not to take the better job.
Re:Government is a puppy: Dangerous when bored. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Why Net Neutrality will remain. (Score:2, Informative)
I'm sure you'll see plenty of legislation passing this new Congress (if any does at all) with less than 60 votes in the Senate.
Re:privaized raods and Libertarians (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know where this comes from, I have never heard a Libertarian say all roads should privatized. Can you provide a link, or is this smoke?
Right from the Party Platform [lp.org]:
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Ah, neither on the snippet you provided nor on the actual page of the link you provided appears either "highway" or "road". I went ahead and searched the LP website using "road" and "privitize" [lp.org] and all I found was a post in a forum wherein a poster writes:
But [lp.org], many of our critics like to accuse us of not living in the real world. They say, "You crazy Libertarians! You guys probably want to privatize the roads!"
Indeed, we do. Or at least I do. Privatizing the roads is one very important and under-appreciated step we can take toward liberty.
That's one person's belief, one I disagree with, but it is not the party platform. On another page another writer says: privatizing the roads [lp.org] along with other things is only going to make Libertarians look like loons.
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