Broadcasting & Cable, May 8, 2008
By John Eggerton

House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced a bill that would codify network neutrality in antitrust law.

Specifically, Conyers' bill, the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, would amend the Clayton Act, which deals with anticompetitive discrimination in terms of pricing and services, to include Internet-service discrimination.

According to a copy of the bill, it would add a prohibited category of discrimination by broadband-network providers that would spell out what would be illegal, including: discriminating against specific applications; discrimination on terms and conditions; blocking, impairing, discriminating or interfering with uploading or downloading of illegal content; failing to disclose terms, conditions or limitations on service; and more.

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