I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Reps Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chip Pickering (R-MS) introduced the ‘Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008′ (HR 5353) this week. The proposed legislation [PDF] wouldn’t legislate what’s and isn’t ‘neutral’. Instead, it would add a section to the ‘Broadband Policy’ section of the Communications Act which spells out principles the FCC is expected to uphold, in addition to having them hold summits which would ‘assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues related to broadband World wide web access services’ and make it simple for citizens to submit comments or complaints on the internet.”
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