Legislation to codify network neutrality failed to pass, and carriers backed off their plans for a tiered Internet.

修订网络中立性的法案未获通过，运营商撤回其分层互联网的计划。

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Contrary to McCain who wanted to let the private sector sort this out, Obama promised to enforce net neutrality through federal legislation.

相反，麦凯恩希望让私营部门来确定其客户优先级，奥巴马承诺将通过联邦法律来推行网络中立。

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This Net-neutrality type of legislation sharply raised the cost of getting American goods to West Coast ports, thereby making them very expensive.

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Now, this has pieces of this net neutrality issue in this legislation.

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Also some of the "founding fathers" of the internet, such as Bob Kahn, are opposed to aspects of net neutrality, saying that legislation to enforce the concept would "would freeze innovation in the core of the internet".

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