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Sen Wyden calls for short-term ban on Internet tax
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) called on the Senate to pass a short-term extension of a ban on Internet access taxes.
“Don’t hit the Internet with discriminatory taxation,” Sen Wyden said on the Senate floor. “I hope that the Senate will join me in supporting the temporary extension ... as a bridge to permanent legislation.”
The Internet Tax Freedom Act expires on Nov 1, and Democratic leaders are pushing to extend the moratorium through 2014.
Sen Sanders: FCC’s net neutrality proposal ‘grotesquely unfair’
Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to rewrite net neutrality rules would result in “the end of the Internet as we know it” and demanded that President Barack Obama try to stop it.
“This is grotesquely unfair and will be a disaster for our economy and small businesses all around the country,” Sen Sanders said. “We cannot allow our democracy to once again be sold to the highest bidder.” Sen Sanders said that although the FCC is an independent federal agency, President Obama should publicly denounce Chairman Wheeler’s proposal.