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Al Franken, other Senate Dems rally against Net Neutrality

Submitted by: Goshin @ 12:10 PM | Friday, July 11, 2014 | (url: http://www.dailyk...)

First off, Al Franken is in an election year in Minnisota fighting against Citizens United and Net Neutrality, and basically being a level headed dude when it comes to government. I hope he gets re-elected, I'd vote for him if I lived there based on his voting history

anyway
Congressional Democrats aren't letting up on pressuring the FCC to preserve real net neutrality. Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont Democrats, held a standing-room-only field hearing on the issue last week, in which everyone who spoke opposed FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's two-tiered internet approach. That includes Leahy and Welch. And on Tuesday, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) spoke at a Free Press event and made sure the audience understands what's at stake in his fight.

It is absolutely the First Amendment issue of our time, Franken said at a Capitol Hill forum sponsored by the advocacy group Free Press.
Do we want deep-pocketed corporations controlling what information you get at what speed? he added. []

This has been the architecture of the Internet from the beginning, and everyone should understand that, he said.

Some of my colleagues in the Congress dont understand that. ... You just want to go Oh, come on, Franken said. 'Really, dont get up and talk unless you know something.'

(I suspect that's the reaction Franken has to his Republican colleagues, on every issue.) The FCC has now received more than 625,000 emails and comments about net neutrality. Public comment on the current proposal by Wheeler for a two-tiered, pay-for-play internet ends next week, but the commission will accept responses on comments already made through mid-September, and won't decide on the issue before the end of the year.
If you haven't already, send your comments supporting net neutrality. You can use the FCC comments page; the inbox they set up specifically for this issue, [email protected]; and with Daily Kos's petition.

let the FCC know they suck

Category: Politics | 49 Comments
Tags: neutrality

07-11-14 - 12:13 PM
let the fcc know they what
07-11-14 - 12:15 PM
gotta love shit getting erased when posting
:shrug:
07-11-14 - 12:19 PM
great news source goshin

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you are really bad at this
07-11-14 - 12:21 PM
goshin will u ever learn 2 use quote tags

this is fucking bullshit
07-11-14 - 12:22 PM
..against net neutrality?
07-11-14 - 12:23 PM
Yeah, fuck net neutrality!
07-11-14 - 12:26 PM
im so confused by the title of this thread
07-11-14 - 12:29 PM
Originally posted by DMAUL  
..against net neutrality?
07-11-14 - 12:30 PM
goshin is such a lovable imbecile
07-11-14 - 12:34 PM
every tw poster from texas is a gigantic imbecile
07-11-14 - 12:44 PM
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to blackpeople again.
07-11-14 - 12:46 PM
eh you know
for
against
whatever is in the newspaper
07-11-14 - 12:48 PM
you mean for net neutrality??
07-11-14 - 12:49 PM
no man
i mean against the prevailing direction of whatever the FCC is doing
07-11-14 - 12:54 PM
Originally posted by blackpeople  
every tw poster from texas is a gigantic imbecile


hey, fuck you!
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