[News] Senate votes to return to net neutrality

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https://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile...s-new-flagship

The US Senate on Wednesday voted 52-47 to reinstate the net neutrality protections the Federal Communications Commission decided to repeal last December.

Last week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai confirmed that the repeal of the 2015 Open Internet Order would go into effect on June 11. But Democrats put forth a resolution to use its power under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to review new regulations by federal agencies through an expedited legislative process.

Under the CRA, only a simple majority is needed to pass legislation. Just a single Republican was required to vote in favour of restoring net neutrality rules. However, Senators Susan Collins, John Kennedy, and Lisa Murkowski all broke from their GOP colleagues and ensured that the resolution passed.

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Things I care about:

Privacy regulations (basically let's NOT have the ISPs log everything for 500 years and then sell those logs to the NSA)
The ability for multiple vendors to compete in a market


I don't think either of these was addressed.

Meanwhile a bunch of self-righteous millennials are going to pat themselves on the back because AT&T can't give their video customers free data (spoiler: they'll find a way).