Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a splash when it proposed net neutrality rules that would treat all traffic on the Internet equally by enforcing mandates upon ISPs such as Comcast and AT&T, as well as wireless service carriers.

As expected though, the FCC's new rules have created a division in opinions. But while ISPs and the world's largest Internet companies (including Facebook, Twitter, Google, Digg, eBay, and Amazon) have been duking it out, longtime Arizona Senator and former U.S. presidential candidate John McCain has stepped into the ring by introducing a bill to stop the FCC's rules from coming to fruition. The new rules, approved by the FCC earlier today, have raised significant Republican dissent, mostly on the grounds that it's government intervention and "onerous federal regulation." The bill that Senator McCain introduced today, the Internet Freedom Act of 2009, would keep the FCC from enforcing its new rules on ISPs.

In a press release, McCain stated his belief that net neutrality as it now stands would "stifle innovation, in turn slowing our economic turnaround and further depressing an already anemic job market." He also specifically objects to the FCC regulating the wireless industry, saying that a lack of government intervention has been central to its growth.

While Senator McCain has introduced a bill to stop the FCC, it's unlikely to gather enough votes in the House and the Senate, and even then it's very unlikely President Obama would sign the bill. The bill is more likely McCain taking a public stand on the issue. Regardless, it looks like the FCC's rules are about to be put under the microscope and thrown into the fire.