Murdoch paper slams the Kerry/Franken/Cantwell/Wyden Net Neutrality letter

[karynnj]

in a sarcastic op-ed that says the House, which is trying to stop net neutrality by not funding the FCC committee that is enforcing the rules they decided on last December. This is NOT an acceptable role of the appropriations process as it is legislating. Given that the Herald is part of the Murdoch empire that clearly wants to bias what people hear and see, it is no surprise that they agree with the RW House.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is mounting a last-ditch fight to let the Federal Communications Commission impose “Net neutrality” rules on the Internet. It’s time to throw in the towel, senator.

Kerry, who is chairman of the communications subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, wrote to the majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and to the minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), asking them to block a House-passed provision in the stopgap spending measure moving through Congress that would forbid the spending of money on the FCC’s December rule.

The rule ostensibly forbids service providers from interfering with transmissions on their networks.

Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell of Washington, Al Franken of Minnesota and Ron Wyden of Oregon also signed the letter. Only Cantwell is a member of the subcommittee; neither of the other signers is on the subcommittee or the parent committee.

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1319662

[Arkana]

1. Damn the Herald, damn Rupert Murdoch, and damn the entire media.

Fucking Boston Herald is worse than the NY Post, and that's saying something.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Murdoch should be brought down

[blm]

3. Kick and Rec...sorry K, didn't see this when I posted in GD.

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[karynnj]

6. No problem - I didn't post it under the headline, so there was no way you would have seen this

- also GD is the more appropriate place.

[blm]

4. not cool...being unrecced....hard to believe any DUer is against net neutrality.

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[alp227]

5. OP appears to DEFEND net neutrality n/t

[karynnj]

7. That's what BLM is saying - the BH is against net neutrality

and I was attacking their op-ed - her point was that some were unreccing the thread.

[boppers]

9. I'm against government control of private networks.

China's already shown us what happens when the government gets power over what is "neutral" over networks, and the Supreme Court has already stuck down past efforts of the US government to control private networks in the name of "fairness" and "rule of law".

[rhett o rick]

8. Keeping the internets free is one of our most important fights. nm

[blm]

10. amen, brother

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