Congress Light On Tech Issues For 2007

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Aron Schatz
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December 26, 2007
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In a move that I enjoy, Congress took on social matters this year. Tech issues are largely left to the side. That's fine with me. Congress has a habit of screwing things up.

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It was also a quiet year for an issue that so dominated the political debate in 2006: Net neutrality. Just after Congress opened its new session, two senators reintroduced a 2006 bill that would generally prohibit broadband operators from prioritizing Internet content, and House Democratic leaders predicted it would top their tech agenda this year. But no action has been taken on the Senate proposal; no counterpart bill has emerged in the House as of mid-December; and no congressional hearings were held, although thousands of comments on the topic poured into the Federal Communications Commission during the summer.

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