At the dawn of the commercial Internet, President Clinton and a Republican Congress agreed that it would be the policy of the United States ‘to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet . . . unfettered by Federal or State regulation.’ This bipartisan policy worked.”
On December 14, 2017 the Federal Communications Commission voted to restore the longstanding, bipartisan light-touch regulatory framework that has fostered rapid Internet growth, openness, and freedom for nearly 20 years.
Yesterday, the senate voted in a resolution to save net neutrality. Democrats want tighter government regulation, whereas Republicans want a free market Internet and one that is not micro-managed by the government. It's all a matter of politics and trust.
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a bill that has little chance of advancing in the House but offers net neutrality supporters and Democrats a political rallying point for the midterm elections.
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