Republican Project: Segregate The Internet is going full steam ahead

Tammy Baldwin voted for network neutrality, although the Republican corporate slaves in the House stuck together with Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) and managed to get the COPE Act to pass the House Energy & Commerce Committee without the Markey Amendment that could have saved the Internet.

I’m not particularly surprised, but that won’t stop me from being extremely disappointed yet again by the shortsightedness of the current majority party.

It’s not over yet. Please read up on the issue and decide if it’s important to you to prevent COPE from becoming law. If so, please sign MoveOn’s petition as well as the petition at SaveTheInternet.

For an example of what happens when you let the “free market” provide for the communication needs of American citizens, check this out.  If the telcos had provided what they promised, and what we’ve already paid for, we’d have 45 mbps of symmetric bandwidth to our homes.  That’s 30 to 60 times faster than the average DSL or cable broadband service currently available to us.