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Major Victory! FCC rules against Comcast Corp. in net neutrality decision


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Earlier today the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 that Comcast Corp. interfered with Internet users’ right to access content at their convenience. Comcast is the nation’s second-biggest Internet service Provider, and the company with a foothold on local high-speed Internet subscribers.

In an October interview Comcast Tallahassee general manager K C McWilliams said local consumers should not have experienced slowness with their high-speed Internet connections.

"It shouldn't be slower at all," McWilliams said about Comcast’s local Internet service. "It could be a number of things. Believe me; something is wrong if something is slow with our service."

Commission chairman Kevin Martin compared Comcast’s practices to opening someone’s mail, deciding not to deliver the message and telling the sending party unknown.

“Today, the Commission tells Comcast to stop, and to disclose to its subscribers how it is going to manage traffic on a going forward basis,” Martin said in a press statement. “We therefore take another important step to ensure that all consumers have unfettered access to the Internet.”

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26 responses // Major Victory! FCC rules against Comcast Corp. in net neutrality decision

  • YES!! Yes, Yes, YES!!
    *jumping around room, whoo-hooing*
    recommended by  Marilynn_Murray, jubal, Vierotchka
    huntre
  • Glad to hear it! Any time someone beats down Comcast I will applaud, even if it is the idiots at the FCC.
    recommended by  Marilynn_Murray, Vierotchka, jubal
    Blazesboy
  • FU Comcast
    jay_ct
  • cheers!
    twodee
  • Who says there isn't any good news anymore.

    Now all we have to do is demolish internet 2 when it comes around.
    BretByron
  • The vote was 3 to 2 eh? I guess Comcast couldn't buy that last vote...
    rightbrain
  • usually the fcc is all about levels of cencorship and dictating values to us. its nice that they did something just. but let us not forget the fcc's responce to janet jacksons nipple.
    freecrack
  • Comcast has got to be one of the most subversive corporate entities to ever be involved with the media industry-

    As a former insider, I can honestly say I am thrilled at the vote, but skeptic to any real resolution or change.

    Comcrapic, BombComcastic, and for furter wonderful news of the bastards: http://comcastmustdie.blogspot.com/
    Hiway
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here, and here
    I pay enough for the internet, I want it to be fast and unfettered...
    good job FCC!
    Bigdog_mike
  • Too bad this doesn't change anything when you call for technical support.
    sublimeuniverse
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  • Comcast is just one more company that doesn't really understand what business it's in...

    i'm with Time-Warner now, and they're not much better, just a little nicer.
    plusaf
  • faster...faster...faster
    J_Jammer
  • Excellent. Keep leveling this playing field!
    ThinkAbroad
  • I've had comcast internet for a while now and I've never really had any problems with it; but this article was good to see.
    jacijacijaci
  • Comcast = China
    petarro
  • paste the address for anything from the web
    Glad to hear it, the concerning thing for me is whether this is even going on in the UK. The other day I saw Vodafone advertising "Free access to Facebook" which reeked of bad news.
    phillyharper
  • It is indeed a fine day for the people of the internet.
    We may have won the court case, but we have not won the war.
    dcgamers
  • open interwebs FTW
    spiky_bobby
  • never had any problems with comcast...odd.
    diode
  • I have comcast it works fine, but in the future if they try to slow me down, hello qwest
    kennymotown
  • Just hope comcast dosen't send in it's pac's and reverse the decision. They just need to buy one more vote.
    Robroy1
  • http://brutallyhonestcolumn.blogspot.com/
    The article won't be up until tomorrow, but you need to read it when it does...

    http://brutallyhonestcolumn.blogspot.com/2008/08/week-o...

    In short, this smells too much like a scam, with Comcast playing the fall guy for the other corporations.
    DJMatt2
  • Don't get me started. Lately I am running on Comcast, Thanks to my friends and everything it is ok. My house still on SBC-Yahoo-AT&T and God knows who else and things are ok except that they claim to have better internet security but some of my techies engineers friends are trying to figure out how my old computer got hacked. Hummm! I think I have figured that out...
    stopnoise
  • Does anyone have an idea why Comcast was doing this?

    I listened to a lengthy report on the radio today that went in to great detail about what they did and how they did it but I have yet to hear even a suggestion of how they benefit from this?
    seeker561
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