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Get Ready for Internet Toll Roads

An amendment to require network neutrality -- the idea that all content moving across the Internet would not be prioritized for delivery on the basis of fees -- was defeated Wednesday in a U.S. Senate committee.

In an 11-11 vote, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology failed to attach the network-neutrality amendment to a bill that would remove certain barriers for telephone companies to sell TV services. The vote in favor of attaching the amendment included all the Democratic Senators plus Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine).