U.S. Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality, Now Expected to Face Major Hurdle in House

There's still hope!

 

Good.

Hopefully the Trump Admin. faces a massive defeat here.

 

I still do not understand how a political issue which 90% of Americans do not agree with gets forced upon us.

Once again, the big corporations continue to have their way. Keep filling up that swamp.

 

Wait - did the U.S. Senate vote to repeal or restore?

 

I wish I could be more optimistic about this... But this will never pass the House in this current administration.

 

Gerrymandering. Hence the only 3 votes from the GOP in support.

(Also to any posts that follow, please know what ISOC/IANA/ICANN are before you post in this thread).

 

Repeal the FCC order, in order to restore net neutrality.

Something everyone should be in agreement with, regardless of your political beliefs.

 

Man, once we flush this filthy administration out of our government we’re going to have sooooo much work to do to reverse all their damage and restore order. Get out and vote blue this November folks!

 

My armchair understanding is repeal the decision of the FCC to repeal the network neutrality rules. So basically, restore network neutrality in the broad sense of the word. Assuming it actually passed the House and POTUS.

 

This is the most surprising thing - it's not an opinion based on one party or another. If the Republican party doesn't restore net neutrality, then they will be acting against what the vast majority of Republican voters actually want.

 

An issue which 90% of American do not understand, and big corporations (AT&T, Comcast, et al.) were in favour of the bill the senate is trying to repeal today.

Keep drinking that kool-ade.

 

People would be up in arms if utility companies started adding on extra charges depending on what you use the resource for. Extra $5 for using dish washer, 4k TV for example.

Strangely, some people are quite happy in letting ISPs do just this for data usage. Odd.

Each bit of data should be equal, not matter what it is used for.

 

Sadly, 90% of Americans don’t support NN. WAY too many Americans don’t understand the issue at all.

 

They are pretty open about how they only give a damn about what the oligarchs who control them want.

 

Even if it did, Trump will almost certainly veto it, and I seriously doubt the House and Senate can muster a majority to overturn the veto, even if they're willing to try.

 

You'd think all the evangelicals would want freedom of speech applied to their corners of the web...

 

Respectfully, it should be known by now that there is almost no way to predict this president's actions. It's very possible that he would go against his own people. Otherwise, I think this story is accurate.

 

Bernie says internet is a God given right! So are food, water, housing, healthcare, and cellphones! Vote for Bernie! Free stuff!

 

The internet may remain an open place now. Good.

 

Settle down. This was for campaign ads only. It's not going to go any further. House does not support it, doubt president does either or FCC would not have repealed in the first place.

 

Good on those three Republicans for representing their constituents instead of their party.

 

So all this act and potatoe can still decide on his own at the end? That system is rigged

 

I keep wondering if this happens if Apple, Google and facebook would consider just buying one of your large ISPs (I would guess between them they could muster the cash), and then charge Fox (for example), 100x as much as they charge everyone else for transport fees.

How long would it take before net neutrality were restored..?