Senate Mulls 'Net Neutrality Lite'

The cries of a million or so petitioners have made it a little farther into the aural canals of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Stevens has offered up a compromise on Network Neutrality in a provision one critic is calling "Net Neutrality Lite." The provisions have been offered as an extension to the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, which is set for a vote in the Commerce Committee as early as Thursday, June 22. Though the addendum has language aimed at preserving the consumer's right of way on the public Internet by forbidding ISPs from blocking access to web content and officially gives the right to use "any Web-based application," the draft says nothing about restrictions or bans on tiered pricing, definition, however, is evolving to more plain language and Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), another Commerce Committee member has stepped in on behalf of Net Neutrality proponents arguing that the compromise does not go far enough to ensure the protection of the Internet as we know it and will be lobbying for stricter guidelines. | document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web