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Jakes Progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 02:20 PM
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Congress is the army of your enemy.
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 02:23 PM by Jakes Progress
And they are winning. We are losing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/house-votes-to-reverse-ne_b_824776.html

Last night, the U.S. House voted to reverse the compromise Net Neutrality rules passed by the FCC in December. Today, the same politicians plan to vote to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the institution that distributes federal funds to some 1,300 local public broadcasting stations and other noncommercial media. The cuts were made as part of a larger budget bill that proposes to slash $100 billion in federal funding to numerous valuable public programs.

Even for this Congress, today's vote is a low water mark. The Net Neutrality rules are already a watered down half-measure that don't come close to preventing the largest phone and cable companies from censoring or blocking what you see and do online. Last night, phone company lobbyists got congress to vote down what was already a shell of what President Obama promised when he said he would "take a backseat to no one" on Net Neutrality.



Your elected officials have no intention of working for you. Net neutrality and the actions against the CPB are just indicators. Their greed and their duplicity is obvious and shameful.
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GSLevel9 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 02:21 PM
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1. the CONGRESS... or the HOUSE? nt
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Jakes Progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 02:24 PM
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2. Both. And the administration and the SC aren't on your side either.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 02:53 PM
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4. +1....
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 02:53 PM by mike_c
Egg zackly!
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 02:26 PM
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3. ..
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 02:28 PM by Strelnikov_
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