[x-pubpol] US: Obama Pledges to Veto Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/obama-pledges-net-neutrality-veto/

WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama
likely would veto upcoming legislation that would unwind net-neutrality
rules the Federal Communications Commission adopted last year.

Senate Journal Resolution
6<http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112sjres6pcs/pdf/BILLS-112sjres6pcs.pdf>,
(.pdf) which is expected to go to the Senate floor perhaps as early as this
week, “would undermine a fundamental part of the Nation’s Open Internet and
innovation strategy — an enforceable, effective but flexible policy for
keeping the internet free and open,” the White House
said<http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/sapsjr6s_20111108.pdf>.
(.pdf) The House passed a similar measure last spring, and Obama had
threatened<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/06/963704/-Net-Neutrality-news:-Obama-threatens-veto,-court-dismisses-telecom-lawsuit>
to
veto that, too, if it landed on his desk.

The Senate measure, which mirrors the House resolution, says Congress
“disapproves” of the FCC’s net neutrality rules, which “shall have no force
or effect.” The rules, which don’t go into effect until Nov. 20, bar
broadband providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable from playing
favorites with internet traffic, while a lighter set of rules applies to
mobile broadband providers like Verizon.

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