11 Feb 2009
US lawmaker injects ISP throttle into Obama rescue package

How stimulating! Let's turn the Net into a walled garden - or perhaps a gated community. Very gated.

Doesn't surprise me to see Feinstein and Waxman behind this - those two seem bound and determined to kill that golden egg laying goose, whatever it takes.

US Senator Dianne Feinstein hopes to update President Barack Obama's $838bn economic stimulus package so that American ISPs can deter child pornography, copyright infringement, and other unlawful activity by way of "reasonable network management."

(link) [The Register]

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