Fox News reports:
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved a plan to regulate the Internet despite warnings that it could strangle industry investment and damage an economy that is still struggling to recover.
The 3-2 vote fell along partisan lines with Democrats capitalizing on their numerical advantage.
The rules would prohibit phone and cable companies from abusing their control over broadband connections to discriminate against rival content or services, such as Internet phone calls or online video, or play favorites with Web traffic. …
Commissioner Robert McDowell, a Bush appointee, said the FCC’s plan “appears to some as an obsessive quest to regulate at all costs.”
The baby steps just took a gigantic leap. Jim DeMint stands against it and vows to fight it:
Unelected, unaccountable Democrat FCC commissioners are taking over the Internet. I’ll work to keep it free & reverse this decision in 2011.
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