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The bi-partisan House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology voted Wednesday to invalidate the net neutrality rules recently imposed by the Federal Communications Commission, reports the Washington Post. The vote comes just weeks after House Republicans voted to reject funding for the FCC initiative. The Republican-led House panel issued a 15-to-8 vote, along party lines, to nullify the FCC rules, which were passed in December.… Read More

Last week the U.S. Senate approved a bill that would delay the United States' transition to digital television until June 12, 2009—and while a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives last week failed to get the two-thirds majority required under rules adopted for the vote, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs has said the newly-installed Obama administration expects the U.S. House will approve the legislation. The new vote… Read More

Pundits have been pondering just how much influence social networking sites like the ever-popular MySpace might be able to exert on U.S. election politics: declared presidential candidates from both major parties have assembled MySpace pages and are enthusiastically inviting the sites' online-savvy youth demographic to sign on as their friends, and organizers alternately quake in fear and glee as they ponder the potential… Read More