| Last night the Markey Net Neutrality amendment was defeated 152 to 269 and the COPE Act passed with a vote of 321 to 101. If the COPE Act passes into law it will remove the requirement for telco companies, such as Verizon, to gain local or state cable tv franchises.
In other words our own, yet to be signed into law, state-wide cable TV franchise legislation will soon be obsolete. This is all the more reason for Governor Corzine to press Verzion on Net Neutrality before signing New Jersey’s legislation into law. If our own legislation will soon be trumped by federal legislation then I say there is no risk in holding up the signing due to Net Neutrality concerns.
Governor Corzine has a chance to show that New Jersey is a technology leader and that we know that Verizon’s plans for the future of the internet are bad.
I am asking Governor Corzine to hold up the signing into law of the state-wide cable franchise legislation till he is satisfied with Verizon’s plans for the future of the internet.
Please help me get the message to Governor Corzine that he should hold Verizon’s feet to the fire on Net Neutrality prior to singing the legislation into law. |
