SocraticGadfly: EBJ sucks up to SBC/ATT, votes to kill Net neutrality

June 10, 2006

EBJ sucks up to SBC/ATT, votes to kill Net neutrality

What do all the acronyms mean?

They mean that Dallas Democratic Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, a member of the Progressive Caucus and allegedly one of the House’s more liberal members, has seen the light from campaign contributions from SBC(formerly Southwestern Bell), now part of the new AT&T.

Specifically, she has voted to eliminate Internet neutrality so that folks like AT&T can charge companies like Google out the wazoo for Internet service, especially broadband. This ignoring that the bandwidth of telecommunications is supposed to be under federal regulation as a fair-play utility.

Reason what, No. 223, to vote Green! (EBJ has a Green as well as a GOP opponent this fall.)

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