Ha!

There are plenty of things I'd like to say to plenty of people that I don't for fear of disturbing the status quo. Wouldn't want to make anyone unhappy or upset, right? And yet...I'm still silently in turmoil.

Net neutrality measure fails house

From ZDNet:

The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.

By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.

Of the 421 House members who participated in the vote that took place around 6:30 p.m. PT, the vast majority of Net neutrality supporters were Democrats. Republicans represented most of the opposition.

And there you have it, the republican party putting corporate interests ahead of social ones. I'll be blaming a right-wing congressman if, in the future, I find that Google loads more slowly than Yahoo because my DSL provider, Verizon, has a deal with the latter.