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Thursday, September 30, 2010

No net neutrality plan from Congress, so now what?

Amplify’d from arstechnica.com

Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) has thrown in the towel on net neutrality—at least for now. The Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee says he can't get any Republican support for his widely reported draft legislation on Open Internet rules.

"With great regret, I must report that Ranking Member Barton [R-TX] has informed me that support for this legislation will not be forthcoming at this time," Waxman declared in a statement sent to the press. "This development is a loss for consumers and a gain only for the extremes. We need to break the deadlock on net neutrality so that we can focus on building the most open and robust Internet possible."

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