[phyrrus9]

So, I've seen comcast's tweet about throttling or whatever many times in the last few weeks, and it started to raise some questions to me.

I did some research today and found this article (from yesterday) that makes some very interesting points.

Funny thing is, Comcast isn't in FCC compliance even today, I have an open FCC case with them right now (I can provide those details if needed). Discuss this please.

[MrSecurity]

confusing and irrational two things to describe Comcast.

[phyrrus9]

confusing and irrational two things to describe Comcast.

They're just general assholes. I think many of the existing monopolized corporations today (Comcast, Microsoft, Equifax) should either not be allowed to exist anymore or be heavily fined for their crimes.

[themakokid]

I feel like there's a general lack of competition in the residential ISP market. Here, Quest (Century Link) owns and leases a vast majority of the infrastructure and offers service in only a handful of those. There a many residential areas that are limited to Comcast for wired options. The remaining options (satellite, wireless, whatever) can't compete with the broadband offerings from Comcast and Quest. I expect it's the same in other areas. My parents live in an extremely rural area and their only options are Verizon FIOS or Satellite.

People say the Internet market is competitive and lacks monopoly, but Comcast/Verizon/Cox/Time Warner have effective monopolies in a lot of regions.

[phyrrus9]

I feel like there's a general lack of competition in the residential ISP market. Here, Quest (Century Link) owns and leases a vast majority of the infrastructure and offers service in only a handful of those. There a many residential areas that are limited to Comcast for wired options. The remaining options (satellite, wireless, whatever) can't compete with the broadband offerings from Comcast and Quest. I expect it's the same in other areas. My parents live in an extremely rural area and their only options are Verizon FIOS or Satellite.

People say the Internet market is competitive and lacks monopoly, but Comcast/Verizon/Cox/Time Warner have effective monopolies in a lot of regions.

They don't have effective monopolies, they have actual monopolies. That was something that was decided in the 1920s, and govt suspended antitrust rules for telecom

[mothered]

confusing and irrational  two things to describe Comcast.

I can say the same for one of the biggest telco providers In my locality.

I've changed quite a few over the years (due to throttling my connection, Inconsistent billing etc) and now hooked up with one that I'm finally satisfied with. Obviously I don't trust any, but I'd rather be more so happy than not.

[Synthx]

So upon reading the article that you provided, I stumbled upon how they removed "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes." from this page, so I went to the page and found the following:

Spoiler:

Unless I'm reading this wrong, isn't that pretty much the same as "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes."? Still, them removing it isn't right, they should stick to what they "pledged" in the first place, and if they were to do anything to it, it needed to be a few words changed or some shit like that, not removing a statement in it's entirety.

[Esoterith]

So upon reading the article that you provided, I stumbled upon how they removed "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes." from this page, so I went to the page and found the following:

Spoiler:

Unless I'm reading this wrong, isn't that pretty much the same as "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes."? Still, them removing it isn't right, they should stick to what they "pledged" in the first place, and if they were to do anything to it, it needed to be a few words changed or some shit like that, not removing a statement in it's entirety.

That's quite interesting.
I'll look more into it, quite curious.

[phyrrus9]

So upon reading the article that you provided, I stumbled upon how they removed "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes." from this page, so I went to the page and found the following:

Spoiler:

Unless I'm reading this wrong, isn't that pretty much the same as "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes."? Still, them removing it isn't right, they should stick to what they "pledged" in the first place, and if they were to do anything to it, it needed to be a few words changed or some shit like that, not removing a statement in it's entirety.

Comcast has made it a point to include the word "legal" or "lawful" in all of there promises now. Here's a scenario for you

Net neutrality gets repealed
Comcast makes a special plan for viewing porn
User does not purchase the porn plan
It is illegal for the user to watch porn (theft), so comcast blocks or throttles it
User pays extra to watch porn
Comcast can no longer block or throttle the content, because the user has purchased it specially