The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of "file sharing" software that allows them to exchange large amounts of data."The commission has adopted a set of principles that protects consumers access to the Internet," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told The Associated Press late Thursday. "We found that Comcast's actions in this instance violated our principles." Martin said Comcast has "arbitrarily" blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to disclose to consumers that it was doing so.
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I don't know how the world works, exactly, but the internet needs to run on GLOBAL STANDARDS, not country, company, state, or city standards... Bandwidth throttling is bad, mmkay?
On top of that, greedy bastards like Comcast and Shaw wanna throttle your Internet, block P2P, make you pay by the gigabyte, and tell you what Internet sites you can and cannot have access to. Can you say "This Sucks"? I knew you could.
I'm glad the FCC is gonna put the beat-down on Comcast for "arbitrarily blocking Internet access" but how about somebody show some leadership and catch us up with the kind of broadband speed you can get in Korea and Japan already. At this point, I'd be happy with an affordable 10MB subscription. I'm tired of being stuck at 5 MB.
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