It’s tough keeping track of all the stand-alone network neutrality bills being introduced in Congress, all as a reaction to the Commerce Committee’s telecom reform legislation which offers only a mild (and many say, toothless) net neutrality provision. The latest: Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced a bill, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, that bars broadband service providers from discriminating against, blocking or impairing any broadband service.
The bill also requires broadband providers to offer unaffiliated content and application providers the same speed, quality of service and bandwidth that the broadband providers offer to affiliated services. As usual, Public Knowledge CEO Gigi Sohn was quick to praise the Dorgan-Snowe bill (PK communications director Art Brodsky could give lessons to the rest of Washington in public policy PR)
The legislation from Senator Snowe and Senator Dorgan will make certain that issue of Internet freedom will be front and center as the Senate Commerce Committee debates and reshapes its important telecommunications legislation. We also would like to commend the original cosponsors, Commerce Co-chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI), and Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer (CA), a member of the Commerce Committee, as well as Ron Wyden (OR), Patrick Leahy (VT), Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) and Barack Obama (IL).
Cynthia Brumfield at 3:17 PM|Comments(0)
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