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-------Original Message------- From: Maja Andjelkovic <mandjelkovic@iisd.ca> Subject: [wsisyouth] US House rejects Net neutrality rules Sent: 09 Jun '06 16:47
House rejects Net neutrality rules By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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.