Breaking News: Historic Win for Net Neutrality!

[SicilianGunner]

dont they have enough money like wtf how much money do they want

[jbohler33]

CRTC set to impose bandwidth caps on all ISP's in Canada! Sign the petition! stopthemeter.ca

[TTheResponder100]

they should have shutdown the fucking comcast fucking liars

[GrandArchitect3D]

what a fraud.

[33dgtp]

don't live in america lol

[GLICKTON]

SAVE FREE SPEECH!!!, the government are trying to take over the internet then put a tax on it, help save it by signing this petition please!! GO TO petition.org.au

[nineinchnail6794]

use verison...

[ghuegel]

Fuck the FCC. At least I can decide who to go to for my internet service. I can't block those cocks at the FCC. Choose freedom and openness; fuck the FCC.

[ProgramG]

@ghuegel obviously you dont understand this issue...

[ghuegel]

@ProgramG Maybe not. But whom can I trust? I tend towards those I can cut ties with. I can cut off my internet providers if I believe they're cheating me... I have Internet from a cable company and a cell-phone company, and there are other options. If any of them do something funny, then I, and everybody else, can leave them. The consumer has the power in this relationship.

The FCC, OTOH, can't be cut off. If voters give it authority, consumers lose their power. I don't like that idea.

[Sprocketman]

@ghuegel This comes down to cable companies like Time Warner and Cox Communications--despite massive growth and record-breaking profits from their Internet Service divisions--being scared jiveless that internet services like Netflix Streaming and Hulu are going to eat their lunch in the content-provider arena.

[Sprocketman]

@ghuegel They want to make sure that, when the day comes that IPTV is a legitimate competitor to cable television, they'll be able to use their roles as internet gatekeepers to extort money out of Netflix or Hulu, or to force their own customers to use their IPTV service instead of being able to shop around. There's a word for those kinds of business practices: antitrust violations.

[Sprocketman]

@ghuegel Also, you do realize this issue is over four years old, right? That this organization hasn't posted a new video in almost two years?

I hope you didn't just get played by Glenn Beck and Fox News and Grover Norquist, because if you did, that's just sad.

[ghuegel]

@Sprocketman The big problem is that these companies will buy influence over gov't policy. If not for that, you, me, and everyone else could freely choose what ISP to use. But instead, the companies try to buy influence over the FCC et al.

I prefer to deny gov't support to these companies, and instead rely on customers to decide what companies to support. This is a complicated case to make, but suffice it to say that customers can destroy a bad company; we have no such influence over the FCC

[Sprocketman]

@ghuegel We also have no influence over the companies, because more often than not, you only have ONE option for internet in your area, or two huge telecoms like Time-Warner or Verizon.

If the telecoms don't want net neutrality (and they DON'T) then I support it, have for four years.

It's a pretty sentiment you make, but quite frankly, to believe it is nothing short of a pipe dream.

[ghuegel]

@Sprocketman I think that the pipe dream is that some gov't institution will protect us from corporations. The regulators are influenced by them, and, if allowed, they write the laws together.

Why are you worried about a monopolistic corporation, if you advocate a monopolistic regulatory body? I don't understand how you can believe that the unavoidable regulators are more trustworthy than the tenuous companies.

As tech evolves, more options become available... net neutrality can squash this.

[unclesmrgol]

@ghuegel Wrong. By filtering on content as certain vendors already do, innovation is stifled, because your newfangled next-generation protocol may be one which competes with a vendor's own offerings, much as Skype VOIP competes with AT&T and Verizon. Without Net Neutrality, venders who view your app as a competitor can suppress packets by content or destination. With Net Neutrality, they can't do that. They can only enforce bandwidth per their contract with you.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

good, but to an extent its propaganda, what this issue addresses is corporate control, not government censorship, which almost every western government is doing silently.

[RenegadeTimes]

Installed Comcast a few years back. Ran like pure crap. Warned them...then dumped them..and took 20 cutomers with me. Remember the way to S L O W the machine/ corporate is

NON compliance..always !

[Azathoth51]

Am I the only one who thinks these people's words are not exactly... syncing up with their mouths?

[NatMage]

the sound is off a little

[FinalRespect]

Fuck yeah eat that comcast

[danmarino1970]

secure . freepress . net/site/Advocacy?cmd=homepage­&page=UserAction&id=277

[andrewbnkjv]

Wow that Micheal copp guy put the smack down!

Go free press, go free internet.

[withoutmercyuk]

friday (10th Oct) Parliament live is reporting on the need for more internet security."Some of our recommendations, such as the establishment of a specialist e-crime police unit, are now being acted on by government," said Lord Broers, chairman of the inquiry, in a statement released today! (06/10/08)

[teenwhaletail]

Stop using fucking comcast for christ sake!!

[AntiEtc]

People are too fucking pussy to stand up in what they believe in.

Fuck comcast. Everyone stops using them, they go out of business, then they're FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!

[catchtwenty2ube]

Fuking yes yes, this one goes out to all that knew & actually bothered to do something about it.

COME ON. Lets hope it stays that way

well done people.

[0rip0]

Well now Comcast is going to have the last word. They're going to limit their customers to 250 Gigs a month. Google "Comcast to limit Internet users to 250 gigabytes"

[picklebarrels]

Comcast has been doing that for a good year now. Luckily since this went through we're on our way to forcing them to disclose that kind of bullcrap and prevent them from locking down other unrelated internet services so they can get away with offering inferior garbage at a premium price.

[Keitarokun581]

Hahaha bout time something was done. My internet has been crap ever since Time Warner was bought by Comcast.

[WaffleBakingStar]

Shoulda switched to ATT

[LabbySidhe]

I wonder if this has to do with the random periods of inactivity family members and I sometimes get. :O That sucks.

[rocklymr15]

Now if only the FCC would tell parents to monitor their children instead of blocking every thing on TV...

[JZX100Chaser]

all I got to say is,

FUCK YEAH

The FCC have finally listened to the citizens!

[DoodyMan]

Another one for Freedom!

WOOP WOOP!

[ShortbusMooner]

Yaayyyy! A score for democracy!

Keep up the good fight, folks! It's not near over!

[madest]

This group of unelected officials act as if they're pro technology and small buisiness. When in fact this same group did everything they could to drag their feet on the XM + Sirius merger. With a few politically appropriate donations the NAB was able to stall the merger for more than a year and when they did approve, they added conditions. These douchebags have no authority to dictate content. The system is broken they are not authorized to interfere with the internet.

[DillonX]

Comcast screwed me over & over again on my bill.

But then if you want to complain, you're talking to someone in India, or some other foreign country, who's authorized to give you maybe a $5 refund. Anything more apparently must be approved by the CEO of the company.

THEY WERE HORRIBLE!

[ApacheMan2K]

heck yeah! it's time we showed Comcast that they're not the only Internet, cable, home security, or digital voice provider in America.

[JohnBScott86]

I'm already paying through the nose to get internet access as it is so I'm gonna put this plainly and from the heart, (Clears throat, pops fingers & neck, and takes a drink of water)...TAKE AWAY MY INTERNET AND I TAKE AWAY YOUR ABILITY TO WALK, TALK, & FUCK!!!

[pedicabdr1ver]

suck my cock, comcast

[sLeepPastNooN]

But... it's still a series of tubes, right?

[zbore2]

...and still not a place where you just dump crap!

=D

[sLeepPastNooN]

That's right because if those tubes are filled, the internet is going to be delayed. =P

[CloanLabs]

I'm stoked!

But this is what always happens with technology. Brilliant scientists come up with a brilliant idea to make the world a better place and life more enjoyable and meaningful.

Then a bunch of fat cunts come along and figure out how to make a pile of money by raping the entire population.

I guess the moral of the story is: If we scream and bitch loud enough, those in charge have to do something or risk looking like they're holding the bag for the assholes. Or ARE they just holding it?

[DsmB2007]

YAY Kevin..

For once a Chairman of a Federal Commission who looks like HE KNOWS WHAT THE HELL HE'S TALKING ABOUT!!!

!!!

[anon510]

first off fuck comcast... secondly the fcc, actually has some promise to actually do its job as an actual entity of the u.s gov.

[ijlk]

About time. I contacted Comcast in October about being throttled, and their tech rep lied to my face and told me that Comcast doesnt do that.

[KARStarla]

Yesssssssssssssssss!!!

(doing a jig)

I'm on verizon, maybe I should switch now? lol

[AnimeFanPan]

this may save the future

[wasy35]

good to see this, yay interwebs.

[rblwoaclu]

umg sux too.

[SerpentScribe7]

Sorry, fast-lane totalitarian elitists!! They'll keep trying to slip 'em by us, but we're not going to fall for it or be kept in the dark any more!@!!!

[johnlvs2run]

sock it to comcast

next - sock it to verizon

[kkkalltehway]

Thats when you get when you messssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssss with ussssssssssssssssssssss "radiohead - carma police"

Comcast you got owned, how does it feel, to block the most important thing 99% of people use the internet for. I wouldnt try doing it again.

[martinnitus]

Oh thank God.

[DanielSmith604]

woot

[islandnetwork]

the little voices are being heard!

[Keviarti]

Great!!

[DrakeSizzle]

Right on!

[system0slaven]

Hackers Will Win

There Are many And Smart !!!

[jnjoblon]

Great step forward, great news.

[RoadToDawnZ]

yES!!1111111111111111111111111­11111