The 'Net is no longer so neutral
The United States trails many other industrialized nations in a number of technological criteria, such as broadband penetration, and last week's House vote against net neutrality is only going to make that situation worse. (The defeat of any net-neutrality proposal in the Senate, should one be offered, is a foregone conclusion.) Back in the good old days, when American politicians at least pretended to prefer free markets to crony capitalism, this would never have happened.
(UPDATE: Here's the roll-call vote so you can see how your congresscritter voted.)
But the consequences of this vote are going to be broad and, for most Americans, unpleasant, inasmuch as it will make us much less competitive in global markets. Meanwhile, guess who's eating our lunch in this regard? Among others, the French. Yeah, you heard me.
