It was close — just 52-46 — but the Senate just voted down a bill that would have overturned the FCC’s Open Internet rules. That means the wireline-focused net neutrality package will go into effect November 20th as planned, although it’s likely Verizon will file a lawsuit to challenge it in short order. It also means there wont be a showdown between Congress and the White House over net neutrality just yet — the White House earlier this week promised that the President would be advised to veto any legislation that threatened the Open Internet initiative. There’s also support in the industry: just before the vote Senator Al Franken read a letter to the FCC signed by Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, and eBay urging the introduction of net neutrality principles.
Senate defeats bill that would have overturned net neutrality rules
The Senate defeated a bill that would have overturned the FCC’s net neutrality rules.
The Senate defeated a bill that would have overturned the FCC’s net neutrality rules.
is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast.
We’ll see how long this particular peace holds — and if the FCC’s decision to leave wireless broadband mostly unregulated for now is enough to keep Verizon and other carriers out of the courtroom.
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