Net Neutrality killer bill dies
`A daft bill by technology wizard Senator Ted Stevens, which would have meant telecom companies could charge sites for access for the use of their ‘pipes’, has died a death.
The US Congress ran out of time to discuss the bill in the current session and, when a new Democratic Congress comes back from its holidays, the bill is unlikely to get a sympathetic hearing.
The presentation of the bill did manage to amuse most of the technological community as Stevens presented the Internet as a series of tubes and pipes which would get blocked if the bill never went ahead.’
