Net Neutrality Smothered by the House of Representatives

After numerous bills and voting sessions, the House of Representatives has smothered the hopes of companies like Google, Amazon and eBay, the 421 members rejecting Internet neutrality overwhelmingly.

According to a News.com report, most Republicans voted against the Democrat-backed amendment that would have established the Internet neutrality.

"The future Sergey Brins, the future Marc Andreessens, of Netscape and Google... are going to have to pay taxes. This vote will change the Internet for the rest of eternity," warned Rep. Ed Markey, the initiator of the amendment.

The conflict of net neutrality was stemmed by the desire of companies like Verizon Communications and AT&T to create a separate channel for special services which require wide bandwidths, such as downloading movies.

Content providers, like Google and Amazon, oppose the idea of a tiered Internet and are backed by those who believe that this would kill private initiative.

As if rejecting the neutrality wasn�t enough, a Texas Democrat proposed a new amendment, whose enactment would make Internet companies regret ever starting the neutrality debate.

Charles Gonzalez proposed that neither broadband nor content providers are allowed to discriminate. Adoption of the Gonzales amendment would give birth to truly strange situations, the Internet content companies being denied the right to decide on advertising prices and partnerships. All this issues would then fall under FCC�s (Federal Communications Commission) jurisdiction.