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The Solution: Preserving Net Neutrality
Legislation offered by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) would have amended COPE with language to explicitly enforce network neutrality, but it was defeated. This story details that frustrating setback, and includes a useful comparison of the "crowded field" of network neutrality proposals currently, or soon to be, under consideration in Washington.
Indeed, crucial votes will be cast this summer. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2006 (S. 2917), drafted by Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND)., representents the best solution, and our best hope, to preserve network neutrality.
» Click here to read the bill. Below are comments from its co-sponsors (from savetheinternet.com):
Senator Olympia Snowe:
The idea that brings us together is a free and unfettered Internet. It’s vital we preserve, not undermine, the extraordinarily democratic technological network - over which content providers from the largest corporations in the biggest cities in the world to single individuals in rural towns have equal opportunity to reach millions of Internet users.
Senator Byron Dorgan:
It’s essential that we preserve Internet freedom. The open architecture which now exists, and which allows everyone fair access to any site on the Internet, without gatekeepers, must be preserved. That is what our bill would do - preserve Internet freedom, which is at the very core of what makes the Internet so important, and something that enriches the lives of millions of Americans.
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