Yeah, all of the people who voted on it are old and rich.

Zomg, politics! It's funny, though, so I vote a healthy 5.

Internet freedom FTW

democrats and republicans

HOLY SH*T SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS +1

Yeah noticed that last night all democrats voted for but get this. The champion for the net neutrality is a female republican. Go figure huh?

LOL, those funny Republicans...

Solid man, solid.

i see what you did there

Woot! Let's get this to the up-and-coming so more people can see it.

absolutely groovy... man.

Yeah, I do notice. Even stupid republicans are smarter than leftist idiots.

yes, i do

Olympia Snowe is my senator.

Hooray for big business!

For all you sheep out there that think you are goats... please read: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4731

proud member of the savetheinternet.com coalition.

I sent my senator a letter about net neutrality asking what his stance was, and he sent me back a response: "Net neutrality is an issue related to a bill in congress right now! Thank you for your concern." Is it so hard to actually say "yes" or "no" now?

I take it the RI senators are on the botton half that didn't make it into the screen shot?

Never mind. Went to the site and they're "undeclared" effin Chafee and Reed.

Squirrel Nut Zippers is automatic 5. That's my favorite SNZ song, too.

How come all the Republicans be hatin' D:

lol @ republicans. Makes me glad to live in the UK.

That's amazing. Nice.

You get a 5 for political awesomeness, and Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Put A Lid On It"

OMG Congressmen only votes based on the party line?!?!?!1 THIS IS TEH BIG NEWZ!!

F*CK THE INTERNET

No idea what it's about

http://therealwar.ytmnd.com for what's going on.

f*cking democrats

Keep ragin' against that machine, fella

I love having money. =]

Never mind that this is bullsh*t.

Exactly why I can't stand Republicans...

Someone explain? I'll 4'd for the awesome song, but I don't really understand this.

what?

I like how in American all we can do is hope for our senators to vote on what we want... yay for not being a democracy!

5'd, also, British suck.

lol, bipartisan

CALL YOUR SENATOR! For every call they get they count that as representing 1000 voters. I heard if 50 people call on an issue they will make a difference in the Senator's vote on it. we can do more than just hope... ACT!

net neutrality= government control of the internet. Not net neutrality = private corporate control of the internet. Both sucks, but which sucks less?

lol, republicans are mentally inferior

"Net Neutrality". They can make anything evil sound good. "Patriot Act" "Pro-Choice" "Pro-Life" "Democrat" "Republican". The world is too big with too many ideas for a two party system. I'm against abortion and against the death penalty. Where's my f*cking vote? *ssh*l*es. Guess I'll make my own party. Where I can cry if I want to.

partisan politics are awesome... GO AMERIKA

I guess I'm a democrat.

lol, leave it to people like miniamericanflag to be republications.

Lol silly Republicans and their money

It scares me how many people are blinded by the brilliance of the propaganda behind this law. Corporations will use this to a good end, not as a means of censorship- They can't AFFORD to, because then they will LOSE consumers! THINK, people! Is it really that hard?

So waite...all those "evil big business money loving republicans" voted AGAINST net neutrality? Isnt that a good thing?

Seriously im from Sweden. I have to say, whats wrong with you americans, how could your people vote for bush?

Net Neutrality = Free Speech. Sure there's a chance that companies will still give you that "Free Speech", but why even give them the chance to ignore it?

OH, then I think I had it backwards...actually though, isnt the internet already run by companies like Google and stuff? Competition is always a good thing, privately run...things...are almost ALWAYS better than government run...things.

Mid vote cause im confued, I'd rather have the internet in the hands of various corporations than the government.

Net Neutrality =/= Free Speech. ISPs already the right to block access to sites as they see fit.

... I'm a registered republican and I'm entirely for net neutrality.

"Corporations will use this to a good end, not as a means of censorship" lol , naiveity at its best.

internet is not in the hands of the government dude, its just that its not in the hands of companies, 2 different things... Its like buying land from an indian compared to buying it from microsoft

and id rather buy land from the indians, they sell it cheap!

Mech- to use it as a form of censorship is COMMERCIAL SUICIDE. I would think that you'd be one of the first to take note of that.

"ISPs already the right to block access to sites as they see fit." Uh ya, and then they lose all their customers when they start being f*cktards and blocking stuff people want to go to. Without net neutrality, you can't go to another ISP because it will virtually be like all ISP's blocked the same site (except you can still get to it, it would just be incredibly slow depending on the bandwidth being used in that area.)

and id rather buy land from the indians, they sell it cheap!

"Mech- to use it as a form of censorship is COMMERCIAL SUICIDE. I would think that you'd be one of the first to take note of that." Lol Microsoft, nuff said. I don't see them dead yet.

Well not sh*t. Republicans would make money off it, Democrates would not. Money rules all.

I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!!! YOU GOT TO BAKE A PRETTY CAKE TO THE SENATORS. We trade stephany for a neutral internet bill! ZOMG IM SO SMART

Ironic. You mentioned in the comment before your last that companies LOSE THEIR BUSINESS when the customer is unsatisfied with their performance, which only reaffirms what I've been saying all along. People can and WILL go to new ISPs when they've had enough sh*t. Companies that adopt Net Neutrality as part of their business practice are the solution, not a law passed by the government that forces them to do so.

Net "neutrality": because putting Congress in charge of something *always* eliminates all possibility of corruption. You people are so gullible.

I've read the draft... Its got tons of holes in it so the corperations can sneak through and cheat. Some might be against it cause they see it as a joke cause it got a lot of loopholes

if anyone thinks that letters they send to congressmen and senators are ever read by that actual person, are living in a dream world. letters to santa clause are more worth your time.

dont blame me,i voted for kodos!

"Companies that adopt Net Neutrality as part of their business practice are the solution" Lol, wow, you are retarded. Unless giant companies like AT&T adopt it, what the f*ck is a small company going to do? They have to pay AT&T, Comcast, etc, to use their lines. Get a clue you dumbass, and learn how the internet works first before commenting.

F- the Republicans

durrr, THE MARKET, durrr...THE MARKET solves everything, durrr...what? monopolies? durrr

Yes I do see a pattern: 5274, 6244, 6121, 2235.

The sky is falling

Small businesses can acquire the resources they need should enough consumers become fed up with their current ISPs and seek alternatives. Generate interest in the consumer, and you generate interest in the investor.

BOOM headshot.

Net neutrality for great justice!

By the way, the 1984 in the keywords is a wonderfully pretentious touch on this YTMND.

Wow, this is an amazing discovery! Who thought that senators would vote with their respective parties?

http://www.dontregulate.org/

republicans are confusing me here... they are usually the ones AGAINST big government... why would they do this? it's all about the $$$ i guess. democrates suck, but I might have to vote left if George Allen doesn't flip flop on this issue.

SAVE THE INTERWEB! VOTE DEMOCRAT!

Isn't it great how the right hates regulation but LOVES corporate welfare, tax breaks, and monopolies? So no government involvement in anything, unless we get more money. There's hypocrisy in action.

f*cking republicans

United we stand, divided we fall.

Another reason why I dislike (some) republicans

lol no ones gunna f*ck with the internet and live. ..Dont Worry guys... im from the internet!

Lawl, demicraps and repooplicans.

Ah, youth. I remember back when I used to believe that our Congressmen listened to regular joes like us.

it's a pretty snappy song, though.

dubble yew tee eff, the republicans are against it for the benefit of big business? I guess I'll have to be a lefty in this situation.

lol, old republicans

lousy democrats.

Claps for Snowe. Olympia Snowe. Awesome name too :)

F*ck politics. Nobody here actually thinks.

i noticed the same thing on that site last night... normally i learn towards republican but this is just sick... SICK!!

**lean

F*CKING REPUBLICANS, trying to keep us down

People still vote by party rather than by best candidate? hmm, that might explain a lot...

Oh, and +1 for the song. That's pretty cool.

"Net Neutrality =/= Free Speech. ISPs already the right to block access to sites as they see fit." That's probably why a law is needed to stop that. Plus you contradict this yourself by claiming it's a bad business move.

It is amazing to see what liberties the right wing will trounce on to make a buck.

ISPs should not be regulated by the government in regards to what they can and cannot show; we should be the ones regulating that with our business.

yeah, all the people who are for it are on the left.

How is it a contradiction to say that censorship is a bad business move, yet not support Net Neutrality? If Congress passes it, they are bound to twist the new law to serve them rather than the people.

It baffles me why anyone in this website would be against net neutrality.

I've already explained my position on this.

You know what the most bizaar thing is? Usually Democrats are the ones that want the Govt. to interfere with and regulate business. The republicans have historically wanted little govt. involvement. There must be some frighteningly powerful lobbying goin on up at Capital hill... I'll vote Democrat next time.

+1 to Squirrel Nut Zippers

What I mean is, you say that ISP's are already blocking content, but then say that doing so is a bad business move, which doesn't quite make sense.

hate to break this to ya, but Net Neutrality is going to keep the internet in the stoneage :/. try actually knowing what it is before going "ZOMG, teh republicans are against the internets!!111uno"

5'd for squirrel nut zippers...also republicans

The ISP's claim they've already got higher-speed networks in place, they just won't let them be put to use without somebody paying them. It's like they're holding the progress of the internet hostage.

FACT: republicans are all gay

that's as stupid as if youd put something like "Homosexual Marriage" Dems would be for, Repubs against

1'd for partisanship and unintelligent issue articulation.

...oh my GOD! EVERY SENATOR THAT VOTED ON THIS HAS THE SAME PHONE CARRIER!

This is why midterm elections are important. Get out and vote, people.

lol ted stevens voted against

-2 because 35 > 100. -1 because I own stock in the phone companies. So should you.

4 for hot button issue, 1 for SNZ.

+1 because I was dumb enough to write "35 > 100" instead of "35 < 100." Ha.

it's so f*cking backwards. If these republicans knew how to BE right wing they'd be voting for net neutrality.

REPUBLIF*CKERS DIE

hoorah for california being Democrats!!

I just got my internet yesterday so I'm pissed

John McCain?!?! Why?!?!?

Im sick of the "OMG republicans r st00pid" line. That being said, unless Chimpy sucks off 5 of the SCOTUS judges, this act will be shot down in court almost immediately. That being said, It is green.

Wow, John McCain's actually against it? He's supposed to be the sanest person of his party.

i hate republicans "FURRY PORN FROM THE INTERNETS WILL LEADOUR CHILDREN ASTRAY FROM JESUS! WE MUST ELIMINATE THE INTERNETS!"

I'm saying that they already CAN block content, not necessarily that they DO block content. To block content WOULD be a bad business move since it pisses customers off.

lamest sh*t ever.

lol party lines

I like pie

being a democrat ftw

"lamest sh*t ever." Funny, considering you can seem to make a ytmnd that has higher than a two rating. :/

OMG, senators of opposing parties have opposing views? WTF, THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!!1

lol olympia snowe wins at the internets

Those rascally conservatives

f*ck 'em

Oh you conservatives! If only they realized the world changes over time! Ho Ho Hoooo...

so the democrats have savetheinternet.com while republicans have stoptheinternetS.com. interesting... heh. that mean that ISPs will increase their price if this bill against the internet is passed as a law. that means we lose money and the freedom of speech. hooray! :cough:

stupid kids on here whos parents are republicans don't know what to say haha

yea, i saw that last night...I thought that both sides would be fairly equall in the battle...guess not. =

vote ensign out of nevada office.

I noticed that too. Was happy to see that at least one Republican was for Net Neutrality.

I want internet freedom as much as anybody...But I am sick of these f*cking ytmnds bringing in politics. Keep it off my f*cking internet and talk about it amongst your f*cking worthless friends or something, we don't give a sh*t.

This really shouldn't be an issue divided by parties. The whole Net Neutrality argument is not without flaws. Some regulations suggested by Snowe and others are good while some suggestions made by Senator Markey (he's an idiot by the way) flat out suck. If there were more compromise, perhaps more Republicans would be for it. 1'd for being a Republican bash fest without reviewing the details.

I know senator pryor's son, he's funny

Most of the people saying "f*ck republicans" don't offer any kind of argument, with the exception of Mech and zakmangus. For me, this isn't an issue of partisanship; it's about progress, which this bill will halt.

its a democracy... people are allowed to believe different things

Net neutrality is bad.

Snowe is my senator. She is up for reelection, and I'm only voting for her because her opponent is an insane liberal organic farmer.

What pattern? I don't get it.

OMG most of the corporate puppets are republicans? No Wai! Its gotta be a coincidence lol

took me a while, but yes. I do see a pattern.

gj

Just as long as my own personal internet is untouched and I can still receive sent internets in a few minutes . . .

lol republican f*cks

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4731

I see a pattern, everyone listed is ugly and stupid. It's a requirement for being in American politics.

lol, party divide

Yeah freakin' jews!

I forgive you for spelling my name wrong. But I don't see how it would stop progress; it's not like the telcos are so strapped for cash they have to charge more to upgrade their old wiring. It seems to me like they're just milking the consumers for all they're worth.

I don't know anything about this. But if Ted Stevens is against it, that means I'm for it. I don't want my internets turned into tubes and trucks.

I honestly don't get it. 5 for making me feel stupid.

I'm cofused on this subject because nobody knows anything about it. I mean, really. What everybody says is that it's either good or bad and I can't figure out who to listen to. The division outweighs the knowledge. "Wah! I'm a democrat so I'm for something and I have no idea what it is!" "Wah! I'm republican so I must follow what my party says!" Where are the facts? Not opinions. This just reeks of needless diversion.

The issue here is that corporations are trying to divide web service into 'good' and 'poor' qualities, charging more for good quality. In other words, sites that have a large fan base but low income (YTMND), will become virtually non-functional if not impossible because of inability to afford premium service. Urge your senators to vote for net neutrality.

1'd for political humor. What an oxymoron. It's just not funny.

No...?

Republicans are against because the GOP supports the big businesses that line their pockets. Its another issue of Republicans voting for the vast minority of rich folks while voting against the real democratic wishes of the people.

That's very odd. I wonder why that trend is holding so much.

Strike 19,276 for Republicans. Can we vote them out already?

I live in maine (Go Snowe) and i am republican. I support Net Neutriliaty.

ISP and companys already do this. This law changes nothing.

Yes, this law keeps it from being commonplace.

People who said "F*cking Democrats" or something like that obviously don't know what Net Neutrallity is.

to naysayers: where the f*ck is teddy roosevelt? this bill may not kill the internets and wal-mart hasn't put me on the street (yet but they're trying). regardless... we don't need to be looking up YTMND on ATNTNET. I'm all for little goverment but anti-trust laws saved this country.

What the f*ck is Net Neutrality?

SERIES OF TUBES

ARE YOU SAYING ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES VOTE ALONG PARTY LINES????

I was going to make this ytmnd, but you beat me to it.

Yes, they are all Jew pawns :)

God bless the internets.

The Baron is against government regulation of the internet; The Baron is against most regulation of the internet (Most! I don't need hate mail telling me that The Baron is going to hell for supporting child porn, I do not)

F*cking republicans

USA has got 2 weaknesses: Republicans and democrats. ;-p

F*ck yeah, gj Ron Wyden.

I love watching computer nerds try to formulate coherent political views. "Sue Microsoft!" "OMG the internet shuld be freez0rz!" Read the capmag article.

Look at all the dumbasses that don't even know what they're voting about

I'm in the UK; I already have certain sites (4chan's /b/ is the only well-known one) blocked to me by NTL. I'd rather have the government make a law stating that neither they nor the companies can meddle directly with people's internet access.

holy sh*t democrats and republicans split on an issue!?! nowai

OMG POLITICS. GET IT AWAY. but let the net stay neutral.

Voting Against Net Neutrality is like voting for a repeal of all racketeering laws.

Even though I'm not for any party, sometimes the demo's can be a little better....

Yeah there's no way medical teleconferencers and high-quality video providers should be allowed to pay for higher-quality internet access than the Warez sites I frequent.

Yeah, go Lautenberg!

those damn reps

I'm still not entirely sure (yes, even after that site) whether the actual bill is for the big companies destroying the system & tiering it up & regulating themselves, or if it's just inadequate or if it's something we DO want in order to save the internet.

Stupid republicans...

interesting, i consider myself a republican but i am for net neutrality...

...God the Democrats better take majority in Congress this Fall...if only America would wake up.

Imagine if the Government was made of up all independants...and they actually had to THINK and DECIDE about how they were voting.

Goddammit, Hutchinson. You suck. Stop voting for bullsh*t.

We rock in Maine. Our Republicans are more Democrat than most Democrats.

"Imagine if the Government was made of up all independants...and they actually had to THINK and DECIDE about how they were voting." Funny coming from someone who probably can't explain what Net Neutrality is or why he voted a 5 on it

republicans hate the internets

This is an enormous problem in our political system -- it's pervasive. Media has convinced both politicians and denizens that the American political system is red & blue, democrat & republican, liberal & conservative. Politicians and voters are becoming more concerned with which political image they emit rather than what they really care about. It's a sad state of affairs, folks.

5d cause I'm from Maine!

No law is going to do anything positive for the IntarWeb. You thick-skulled morons need to get it through your heads. Federal laws *never* accomplish anything positive.

five for squirrel nut zippers!

+5 for liberals, +500000000 for the song

Democrats vs. Republicans

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

republicans are all old white men, of course they hate the internet.

Yeah, I really hope this becomes a fad, we need more attention brought to this!

lol ted stevens is against

Do half of you even know what this bill is about? It's trying to bar telecom companies from selling different Broadband speeds at different prices.. It doesn't make sense for the government to meddle in the affairs of a corporation. If I want sh*tty internet at 10 bucks less a month I should damn well be able to get it!

My senator, DeMint, is against. Fail. I'm sorry guys, we didn't vote for him. He said that gays shouldn't be allowed to vote and called his opponent a "little lady", but still won. What a f*g.

Is for good or is it bad? I cant tell. So confusing

i'd like to take this moment to say lmao ted stevens

Nice music, and the coolness thing was pretty funny. But really, f*ck republicans and f*ck democrats (to a lesser extent.)

Read the article, but it makes little difference. Just because in theory one can control the market via demand, doesn't mean that they will be able to control it in real life. Gas prices are a good example of this.

Kansas is against net neutrality.

For earlier comments that if corporations do abuse it and provide sh*tty service, customers will go elsewhere... not if they're monopolies like my area.

In theory, people should be able to control gas prices by favouring those companies with lower prices and compancies that price gouge would be "committing economic suicide". However, in reality they collaborated and now control us to make the most money. Besides this issue, I would agree that people shouldn't be able to pay to get higher priority in net power than others. The key difference here between Pro and Con appears to be one side saying what the internet IS like and the other side saying what...

...the internet SHOULD be like. I choose SHOULD.

Actually, Mewtwox, since both Republican- and Democratic-controlled Congresses have investigated allegations of gasoline price fixing and gouging and found no evidence of widespread malfeasance, your claims with regard to that market are just a bunch of bullsh*t. Gas prices have nothing to do with price fixing and everything to do with Western nations that refuse to allow drilling and refining because of environmental concerns, and the rapid development taking place in India and China.

I think this country needs a new policy called "car neutrality" where no one is allowed to pay extra to purchase anything better than a Pontiac Grand Am.

The reason why Democrats support net neutrality is because they believe in equal opportunity. Conservatism is based on that they don't believe everyone should have equal opportunity, because they believe in structure of society and social order.

If you honestly think that prices aren't being controlled for profit, you don't spend much time looking at the pumps. Funny how predictable the price fluctuations are, isn't it? Not to mention what happens whenever there's oil related news... prices drop way before actual reprocussions are even felt. The government investigation was the equivalent of a handwaive. Like they actually cared...

Five just for the comments the ytmnd inspired.

If the oil companies are exerting significant monopolistic control over the price of gasoline for profit, you'd think they could at least manage to make gas cost more per gallon than bottled water.

its a well known fact that every single republican in power is tied to multi billion dollar corporations. this is no surprise

democrats > republicans

Communism FTL. Why should the government be able to decide what a company does? If an ISP goes non-neutral, people will get pissed off and they'll switch to a neutral provider. Competition between companies will keep the net neutral anyway. Thats the greatness of capitalism.

lol, conservatives.

It's a series of tubes!

Want to save the internet? http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=51569063&MyToken=d23aa540-d5a1-4dbb-a2f1-2a621e876c92 Plant seeds!

Holy ****....Hillary AND Kerry? Somehow, I am very glad Bush is in charge right now. And I just scared myself.

democrats ftw

Lol

lawl they are all senetors? did i get it right?

Draft all the republicans.

I'm ashamed to be a republican

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4731 why would anyone ever favor this retarded net neutrality act? Doesnt help ANYONE. *considering unfunny truth on this one*

Gotta love living here in Maine.

99% of republicans are dumbasses.

Gravity cat is amused by republican bashing.