On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:45:00 +0000, Roy Schestowitz said...
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>Net Neutrality Narrowly Escapes Stimulus Doom
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>| In an earlier version of the Senate bill, Feinstein went against the usual
>| Democrat stance in favor of network neutrality by slipping in an amendment to
>| allowing â??reasonable network management practices such as deterring unlawful
>| activity, including child pornography and copyright infringement,â?? language
>| that would open the door for ISPs to inspect data packets and filter content.
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>http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/02/13/net-neutrality-narrowly-escapes-stimulus-doom
In addition to the Webpronews piece, I ran across a few other articles on this
subject, but I'm still unclear as to whether Feinstein still has the ability to
work the net neutrality language into the bill...
http://www.newsadmin.com/usenet_commentary/commentary_02232009.asp
There was reference to her pushing the amendment through a committee, but I'm
not sure if that had to happen before the bill was passed in it's final form, or
if she can do this after the fact.
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