House Votes to Save Net Neutrality

House Votes to Save Net Neutrality

5 years ago
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xz4v3/house-votes-to-save-net-neutrality

The House today voted 232-190 to approve the Save The Internet Act, a bill that would fully restore both the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules and the agency’s authority to protect broadband consumers from the bad behavior of telecom giants.

The restored rules would ban ISPs from blocking, throttling, or otherwise impeding internet services they compete with. It would also require that ISPs be entirely transparent about the numerous, often anti-competitive restrictions they’re imposing on users’ internet connections. It was a notably different outcome from the last time the House voted on net neutrality legislation—a 2006 vote when proposed legislation lost by 117 votes.