Originally posted on June 8, 2006 @ 10:42 pm
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.
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.
Source: CNET News.com
Of the 421 House members who participated in the vote that took place around 6:30 pm PT, the vast majority of Net neutrality supporters were Democrats. Republicans represented most of the opposition.
This is unbelievable! I’m at a loss for words. What is wrong with the United States Government? Canada is starting to look really good these days. I hear the tech industry is booming in Canada.