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Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) this week filed the ironically-entitled <a href="http://blackburn.house.gov/UploadedFiles/H.R._3924.pdf">Internet Freedom Act</a> (pdf), which is designed to prevent the FCC from enacting network neutrality rules intended to protect the open Internet. As we've discussed at length, the rules do little to nothing ISPs weren't willing to do voluntarily, fall well short of the kind of protections most consumer advocates wanted, and largely leave wireless networks without neutrality protections whatsoever. Still, Blackburn is leading a Republican charge against the new rules, a <a href="http://blackburn.house.gov/">statement on her website</a> insisting the rules are a "hysterical reaction to the hypothetical problem of anti-competitive online behavior." Apparently, many Republicans haven't gotten the memo that the rules, crafted with extensive input and approval from AT&T, don't actually do all that much.

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