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I'm having a hard time finding a link to the results of congressional votes related to net neutrality. Does anyone know which politicians voted for it, and which against? Which party did most of the pro-neutrality politicians belong to, and which party did most of the anti-net neutrality politicians belong to? I'm eager to vote for pro-NN politicians, so I'd like to know.

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I feel you are being disingenuous. It's long been known that the republican party is spearheading the effort to end NN, while the democratic party wishes to protect it. It was a nearly party line vote

I was shocked to discover the same thing! It seems like the best way to preserve Net Neutrality is to vote Republican career politicians out of office.

Why would you be shocked to find such a thing? Republicans wish to remove regulation (usually). Supposedly even republican voters like net neutrality, but that has not been reflected in their votes. More so, if you ever bring up how republicans are on the warpath to kill net neutrality, you often get responses of "But both sides", despite specific things like this being hard party line votes.

Gosh, it seems strange that we apparently have such a readily-available mechanism for rescuing Net Neutrality (the only viable mechanism, apparently)--namely voting Republican career politicians out of office--but so few people are talking about it!

Wow, is it really true that you often get responses of "But both sides", despite specific things like this being hard party line votes? If so, that argument seems truly disingenuous!

Welcome to politics!

Hi! I'm not sure what you meant by that, can you explain? It seems you were implying that you have an understanding of why someone would falsely claim that "both sides" oppose Net Neutrality, when in fact the votes show that it is Republican politicians in Washington that consistently vote against Net Neutrality, while Democratic members of congress consistently vote to protect and safeguard Net Neutrality. I'd love to learn more from you.

The people willing to vote republicans out of office have been doing it already for decades. In my (extremely limited and young) experience, republican voters are fiercely loyal, and willing to actually go out and vote, while democrat voters seem to be utterly apathetic in most cases. This is compounded by the current situation where, many things cause a democrat vote to be worth less than a republican vote in actually changing power balances.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...

Thank you! This resolution, in short, was aimed at preventing the FCC from eliminating Net Neutrality. That means a "YEA" vote was a vote for preserving Net Neutrality, and a "NAY" vote was a vote for allowing the FCC to eliminate Net Neutrality.

If I am reading your link correctly, it looks like 47 Democrats (and 2 independents who caucus with the Democrats) voted "YEA" -- that is, 100% of Democrats voted "yes" to preserving Net Neutrality. On the other hand, it looks like 47 Republicans voted "NAY", with only 3 voting exceptions. That is, 94% of Republicans voted against saving Net Neutrality.

It's amazing that they were split almost entirely along party lines! Democrats unanimously voted in favor of preserving Net Neutrality, while the huge majority of Republicans voted against Net Neutrality.

> It's amazing that they were split almost entirely along party lines!

It's been split almost perfectly along party lines the whole time this has been an issue, with FCC votes exactly following party lines on each of the regulatory proposals (the 2010 Title I rules, 2015 Title II rules, and the current repeal of the 2015 rules).

Let’s vote all of the anti-NN out of office, that’s the only leverage we have left.

I agree! We can talk ourselves blue in the face, but the only thing that will result in real positive change is to vote against anti-net neutrality politicians in November.

I have some vague idea, but I'd like to see the actual vote counts by party affiliation. Does anyone have a link, or could provide this info?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/50-senators-will...

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informat...

All Democrats and only one Republican supported it in the Senate. In state legislatures, all bills were proposed by Democrats.

There's one party that is destroying Net Neutrality, and one party that is trying to save it.

Good to know, thanks! It seems like the only rational thing for a Net Neutrality supporter to do is vote the Republican politicians in Washington out of office this November.

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