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Committee Approves Net Neutrality Bill

By Larry Hendrick | May 28, 2006

I don’t know how many different bills are in contention for “net neutrality,” but this one that passed shows the very reason we don’t want the government playing in a ballpark where they don’t understand the rules.

This quote is the best part of the story … read closely.

DailyTech - US Government Committee Approves Net Neutrality Bill
Interestingly, the members of the committee that supported the bill said that they voted for the bill because existing competition to another bill that was already approved by a different committee. The decision to support the current bill they said, had nothing to do with actual concerns on the future of the Internet and what net neutrality is all about.

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