“Before Tuesday’s midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content,” David Goldman reports for CNNMoney. “All of them lost — and that could mean the contentious proposal may now be all but dead.”
“The Federal Communications Commission tried to implement Net neutrality rules but got smacked down in April by a court ruling saying it did not have the authority to do so,” Goldman reports. “As a result, it is preparing a proposal asking Congress to give it new authority to regulate broadband Internet service.”
Goldman reports, “Republican lawmakers largely oppose the idea of Net neutrality. Though a majority of Democratic lawmakers support the issue — all of the 95 candidates that said they would support Net neutrality on the left-leaning Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s website were Democrats — they have been divided on whether to pass the FCC’s proposed legislation. The debate over Net neutrality has been fiercely fought on both sides, and experts say the FCC’s proposed legislation had little chance of passing even in the current Congress.
“The widespread Democratic losses made an already uphill battle even tougher. More than a dozen incumbent congressmen who had voted for a similar Net neutrality bill in 2006 were voted out of office on Tuesday, most notably Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., a 28-year House veteran,” Goldman reports. “Now, experts say the FCC needs to regroup and weigh its options.”
Read more in the full article here.
The whole slate of Tea Party Christian Conservative social issues are just a cover for the real movement behind it: the rule of this country by certain corporations and the super wealthy. The Koch brothers are perfect examples of those who inherited wealth instead of earning it, and for whom too much is never enough. The little guy in the street with tea bags on his hat is being boiled like a frog by the very politician he supports. We’re entering a new feudalism.
I’ll give the right-wingers credit for one thing: they are very, very good at getting people to vote against their own best interests.
It will be interesting to see if many of those who support the right are enjoying the fruits of said support in the next 2-4 years.
LOL!! Galloway, the point of the article I copied from Techdirt is that the article MDN is copying is spinning things its own way, and is therefor wrong.
Point being that this election was NOT about net neutrality, unless you spin it like that idiot reporter did.
Plus, net neutrality is about pipes being dumb pipes, and not allowing the telecoms to price different data differently according to where it comes from. Not the other way around…
Actually, I think it is officially the United Sates of Amnesia. I don’t remember why though///
down with the corporations! corporations are evil! corporations keep the poor man down! fsck the corporations!
Oh, Gawd, but how I hate articles on this site that even remotely deal with politics. Left, right, up, down . . . it all boils down to the same thing:
I want what I want when I want it how I want it . . . and I want someone else to pay for it.
True? Undeniably. Oh, and I forgot . . . Europe is smart, America is stupid, socialism is heavenly, capitalism is diabolical, the blue-collar working man is the Original Adam, the white collar executive is Satan in Gucci.
Damn, but I do loathe beggaring thy neighbor. (Not to mention buggering him!)
“Comment from: Jake Sisko
@His Shadow
“But I guess it’s not surprising given that 8 years of Bush drove the US to world record debt”
Obama/Pelosi/Reid added more to the national debt in less than two years than had been accumulated since the Washington administration.
Not True. “
TARP was pushed by Bush. Second, Obama’s budget director put the Iraq & Afghan wars on budget where Bush kept them off and funded them with “off budget” supplementals.
So, either this was a complete coincidence since so many Dems lost their seats, OR, there was a vast secret organization funneling campaign money to opposition candidates?
@rwahrens
I absolutely agree that MDN is copying this article to spin things itself, I’m sure for the purpose of revving up the left/right debate in the comments section and getting hits (not that I helped discourage that with my own comments — got carried away there).
I also agree that this election was NOT about net neutrality.
But it sounds like you entirely misread my comments about net neutrality itself. Go back and check what I said there.
RE: ‘Teatard Scum marks the demise of civilized debate, the turning of the USA into a third world.’
Too late…
Obama has already turned America into a Banana-Republic!
I don’t care. I want to get rid of those asswipes The Kenyan Muslim and Pelosi
‘…and I thought America was the home of Democracy and all that? Some men are created more equal than others.’
No Sherm, America is not a Democracy, it’s a Republic… and all that!
Secondly, yes all men are created equal. However, some use their God given talents to get off their arse and make something of themselves with the opportunities that come their way. It makes them only to ‘appear more equal than others’ in the eyes of someone who views the world the way you do.
…or maybe you just didn’t explain them very well. But I agree, dumb pipes should be dumb pipes. Tiered pricing would be a huge mistake for the telecoms.
Net neutrality was a non-issue in this election. People were voting based on the economy, health care, jobs and much bigger issues. Not one candidate I heard even mentioned the net neutrality issue.
The only referendum handed out by the voters was that they do not like the way the country is being run and they want different people in office. To read anything else into it is stupid and self-serving.
All of the communist, left wing, rhetoric, is predicable and sick. Government should have no say in these types of issues. If you don’t like your provider don’t use them. Voting Republican is the answer to the USA’s problems. You Marxist – Democrats are the problem. The take over of the US healthcare system by the Marxists will destroy healthcare and bankrupt the US. Just what I want some union government employee who could give a flying crap about me deciding my allowable medical procedures. You commies are out of your minds. We’re not fooled by your use of language and constant lying, cheating, and stealing to try to take over the USA. Got to HELL!
@jocknerd
Healthcare quality in this country is the best in the world. But it can be better if the Federal Government would just let insurance companies compete across state lines. Stop the out of control lawsuits. Let doctors do what they do best. Permit outside drug companies to sell drugs in the U.S. These are a few things you liberals just don’t want to understand!
I have lived and worked in Europe (Galway, Manchester, and Munich), do not try to sell me the silly liberal smoke and mirrors on their great health care. The health care in EU is not the best, in many ways far from it, unless you have money and can buy private health care.
Also my mother is from Canada and they hate the Canadian health care system! Did you know that both EU and Canada are trying to reform their health care system to be more like ours?
I do not support Government Control Health Care, some regulation is important.
@wmd I guess I am a rightwingnut…
Yes…you are.
Without some government regulation,13 year-olds would be dying of black lung disease and working 12 hour shifts coal mines.
Democrats and liberals are the bane of the USA.
Macam,
your scare tactics have grown old. we all understand that. a bare minimum of government rules is all that’s needed. go take a long walk on a short pier, panty wast.
healthcare isn’t mentioned in the constitution. neither is net neutrality. all you hippie liberals might want to try reading the 10th amendment.
if you want all these entitlements and the government to run our lives, fine, just get your said representatives to hold a constitutional convention and change the constitution.
until then, suck it.
So… How do you feel now?
It’ll work like this for example: Provider A will raise rates to subscribers who visit Netflix because of the bandwidth it takes to stream video content. Said subscribers get pissed. Provider B notices this and offers a rate with no increase to go to Netlix. Subscribers leave provider A and sign up with provider B. Provider A notices this and goes “whoa” and removes the rate increase to visit Netflix to try and stop the bleeding. There is more than 1 provider of internet access out there. To hell with letting the government get their hands on regulating. The more authority we give them the more they want.
@NooLatte
Socialism is the boogeyman, it is wrong, its is misguided and is evil! The problem in this country and in Washington DC is the love some have for Socialism. They believe that social problems can be solved with Socialism. They steal from some and give to others and call it welfare. They try to act like Robin Hood, but they take from everyone until its all gone!
The war on poverty is lost because of Socialism. We owe 14 trillion with over 70 plus trillion we are committed to over the next 20 years because of Socialism. WE DON’T HAVE THIS KIND OF MONEY!!!!!!!!
This may hurt, but NooLatte, please move to Venezuela or Cuba! You are too stupid to live in this great country!
eat that google!!
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This is why I no longer visit MDN regularly – as much as still I love most of their “Takes”, they unfortunately “report” crap like this which has, at best, a tenuous connection to actual reality.
Thank you, rwahrens, for helping set the record straight.
Rest in peace, MDN.