House panel explores net neutrality antitrust law

HOUSE PANEL EXPLORES NET NEUTRALITY ANTITRUST LAW
[SOURCE: InfoWorld, AUTHOR: Grant Gross]
Congress may need to amend antitrust law to keep broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic, said House Judiciary Committee John Conyers (D-MI) at a hearing of the Committee's Antitrust Task Force. Lawmakers may consider resurrecting legislation similar to a bill that failed in 2006 but that would have made it an antitrust violation for broadband providers to block or impair competing Web-based content and applications. Among the people speaking out for a net neutrality law at the hearing were staffers from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Christian Coalition of America, which are often at political odds, and the band OK Go, whose low-budget video for the song "Here It Goes Again" has been watched more than 31 million times on YouTube and propelled the group from moderate to mainstream success.
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