Whatever Happened to Net Neutrality?
September 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on the debate on Net Neutrality, having last week filed an ex parte brief to the Federal Communications Commission concerning prospective laws governing traffic on the Internet. While Senators Byron Dorgan, Democrat from North Dakota, and Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, co-sponsored a bill to preserve the neutrality of Internet traffic in May, the bill has not come out of committee and the FCC seems to be in no big hurry to encourage Congress to legislate on the matter or to make rulings of its own that might affect how Internet traffic |
