Submitted by gio on Wed, 2006-04-26 20:24.
Today Rep's Rush and Shimkus voted no on the Markey ammendment in committee. This is a disastrous position. Rush and Shimkus should get on the right side of these issues, and make public statement in support of having real teeth in Network Neutrality and Anti-Discrimination provisions.
Someone with guts and credibility needs to oppose Barton in the name of Illinois, the birthplace of the World Wide Web. COPE must now be stopped. It is a disgrace that Barton has advanced a Bill with the input of more than 100 person over the course of a year and did not hear the term Network Neutrality until the recent past few months.
Clearly he is listening to the wrong people.
As Markey stated, even the FCC principles on Network Neutrality (which go back more than a few months by the way) are missing one critical ingredient: non-discrimination.
Persons knowledgable about the design and strengths of the Internet make clear and have made clear the importance of non-dscrimination, common carriage and network neutrality. These are not new terms.
Rep's Rush & Shimkus need to take a bold and public position on the future of the Internet in a democratic society, the time is now.
