Bill Text: IL SR1196 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the United States Congress and President Trump's administration to advocate for the permanent adoption of net neutrality rules that keep the Internet free and open.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SR1196 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SR1196-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Net neutrality is the Internet's guiding | ||||||
3 | principle because it preserves the rights of consumers to | ||||||
4 | communicate freely online; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Access to an open Internet gives individuals, | ||||||
6 | associations, investors, and entrepreneurs the power to run | ||||||
7 | small businesses, contribute to the marketplace of ideas, | ||||||
8 | partake in civic engagement, and exercise freedom of speech; | ||||||
9 | and
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10 | WHEREAS, The United States of America has had and embraced | ||||||
11 | net neutrality since the creation of the Internet; our nation | ||||||
12 | passed formal net neutrality rules in 2015 to codify the manner | ||||||
13 | in which United States citizens have utilized online services | ||||||
14 | and to protect the individual freedoms and right to information | ||||||
15 | of the residents of Illinois; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Net neutrality perpetuates the way we use the | ||||||
17 | Internet by prohibiting big utility companies from slowing | ||||||
18 | down, blocking, or charging websites and applications United | ||||||
19 | States citizens want to use; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Those open Internet rules ensure that consumers | ||||||
21 | and businesses have access to a fast, fair, and open Internet |
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1 | by ensuring that broadband providers shall not block access to | ||||||
2 | lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful | ||||||
3 | devices; broadband providers shall not impair or degrade lawful | ||||||
4 | Internet traffic on the basis of content, application, or | ||||||
5 | service, or use of non-harmful devices; and broadband providers | ||||||
6 | shall not favor some lawful Internet traffic over other lawful | ||||||
7 | Internet traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Without net neutrality, cable and phone companies | ||||||
9 | could carve the Internet into fast and slow lanes, where a | ||||||
10 | company could slow down the content of its competitors or block | ||||||
11 | political opinions it disagreed with; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Internet companies could charge extra fees to the | ||||||
13 | few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential | ||||||
14 | treatment, relegating Illinois residents to a slower tier of | ||||||
15 | service; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Because the Internet must be a place where | ||||||
17 | companies large and small, as well as individual developers, | ||||||
18 | can compete on a level playing field, the Illinois General | ||||||
19 | Assembly supports net neutrality as a principle that underpins | ||||||
20 | a fast, fair, and open Internet for consumers and businesses to | ||||||
21 | ensure equal access to lawful content by prohibiting paid | ||||||
22 | prioritization, throttling, and blocking; therefore, be it
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1 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | ||||||
2 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Illinois State | ||||||
3 | Senate urges the United States Congress and President Trump's | ||||||
4 | administration to advocate for the permanent adoption of net | ||||||
5 | neutrality rules that keep the Internet free and open, allowing | ||||||
6 | all of us to share and access information of our choosing | ||||||
7 | without interference from big utility companies; and be it | ||||||
8 | further
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9 | RESOLVED, That a suitably engrossed copy of this resolution | ||||||
10 | be presented to the President of the United States, to all | ||||||
11 | members of the United States Senate, to all members of the | ||||||
12 | United States House of Representatives, to all members of the | ||||||
13 | Illinois General Assembly, and to the Governor of the State of | ||||||
14 | Illinois.
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