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January 18, 2007

Same Song, New Leads

Because of the new legislative year, we’re going to see some repeats of issues that never got resolved—some good, some bad (depending, of course, on your perspective).

A week or so into the Congressional calendar, the first one of our interest has popped up. Remember Net Neutrality? Sure enough, it’s back:

Little more than six months after legislators in Washington failed in an attempt to preserve “net neutrality,” the newly Democrat-controlled Congress will consider a new bill, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2007, introduced by senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME). It would block broadband providers from assessing charges based on the type of content or services made available and forbid them from prioritizing certain content.

This bill is friendly to the idea of Net Neutrality, an idea which ALA fully supports.

I’m sure there’ll be more on this bill as the year progresses, so be sure to keep your eyes open.

posted by Alan at 2:12 pm |

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