House Republicans Voted to Defund "Net Neutrality"

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It really is defunding an attempt to censor the internet, and it looks like Republicans got the message.

FCC wants to shove "net neutrality" into place, House Republicans say, fine good luck trying to do it without any money.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/house-pa ... r-20110217

how about we just end the FCC all together?

I think if the FCC keeps it up they might end up being completely defunded.

Now granted the Dems in the Senate and Obama won't go along with it, but now we know which side is really for freedom and which side isn't.

actually Al Franken (D- Mn) started the fight FOR net neutrality.

I just can't believe the way some of this stuff gets twisted around. Sheesh.

nope, it started with google wanting to control who saw what on the internet based on their affilates, and then google got a government security clearance. Now what is google doing with a government security clearance and trying to decide who sees what??? Sounds fishy to me. It also sounded fishy to Al Franken who then started trhe Net Neutrality movement to stop google and other agencies from doing this. Meanwhile those on the right have been spinning a disinformation campain about net neutrality to those not well informed on the issue.

@ Zara and jojobean

No, you are a both wrong because Google supports the Democrats "net neutrality."

From the leftist Huffington Post
As a songwriter I have a problem wrapping my mind around the concept that the FCC is going out of the censorship business and into the protection of free speech.

Wasn't it the FCC that banned Billy Holiday's wonderful recording of "Love for Sale" and Cole Porter's "I Get a Kick Out of You?"

Wasn't it the FCC that agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew that the recording industry was promoting 'drug culture' with songs like "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "A Little Help From My Friends?"

Isn't it the FCC that gave us Janet Jackson's 'Nipple Gate' and drove Howard Stern off the air and onto satellite radio? Didn't they ban Ice-T for Cop Killer? Fine Bono for cursing at an awards show?

I could go on, but I hope this short list demonstrates the controversial history of the FCC's role in censoring free expression in music.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-carn ... 09392.html

I would debate what free expression in music is but the guy's point is valid.

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/05 ... speech.ars

Net neutrality is from the people that brought you the "fairness doctrine" which is also known as the censorship doctrine.

The FCC may not be perfect, but I'd rather have something that's generally accountable to the people rather than a bunch of corporations completely taking over internet access that are accountable to only their shareholders. Regulation of the internet in some form is probably inevitable, either the government will have to or private corporations will do so for their interests.

I'm not even sure if what you posted there even proved anything. So the FCC doesn't like people using curse words or showing bare breasts on public airwaves?(not that I have any issue with such) What are they going do with the net? Ban porn? Good luck with that. And I thought you conservative folk were against people using dirty language, sex and nudity on public airwaves since you're all so always concerned about the children...
The FCC usually only acts that way when people irrationally complain about something(like "nipplegate"). It wasn't always the best course of action but the agency was being accountable to the people.

Anyway, censorship is not the goal of net neutrality. It's to keep ISPs from abusing their control of internet access to favor certain groups over others.

@ Zara

Sorry but the far-left which runs the DNC has made it quite clear that it is really intended to censor people they don't agree with.