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DarkSpin
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Joined: August 03, 2005
Posts: 651
From: Somewhere in the USA
|  Posted: 2008-01-17 22:48
Net Neutrality supporters just won a new round in the fight to keep the Internet open and free of corporate gatekeepers. And it's because you took action.
Over the last three months, more than 23,000 Free Press activists demanded the Federal Communications Commission stop Comcast from blocking Web traffic. Yesterday, the FCC responded, announcing that it would investigate the cable company's Net Neutrality violation.
The FCC is seeking public comment before it decides to punish Comcast. By speaking out now, you can force the FCC to stop all the would-be gatekeepers from tampering with the free-flowing Internet:
Tell the FCC: Protect the Open Internet
Late last year, the Associated Press caught Comcast secretly blocking users ability to use peer-to-peer software to share information with one another. Comcast was using Web filtering technologies similar to those used in China to censor the Internet. AP called the violation "the most drastic example yet of data discrimination."
Free Press and other Internet rights groups filed a petition with the FCC calling for urgent action to stop Comcast's Internet blocking. Tens of thousands of activists sent letters to the agency in support of our petition. Public pressure is now forcing the FCC to act.
Comcast blocking of online content is the canary in the coal mine for corporate efforts to gate-keep the Internet. The FCC must send a stern message to stop other phone and cable companies that want to follow Comcast's lead and control our Internet experience.
Tell the FCC: Don't Let Comcast Off the Hook
Blocking our access to the Internet should never be tolerated. The longer the FCC waits to punish Comcast, the more companies will continue to invest in technologies to censor and manipulate what we can do online.
Thousands of you spoke out against Comcast, and the FCC launched an investigation. Now we need to keep the heat on the FCC to make sure all gatekeepers are punished.
Thank you,
Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
http://www.freepress.net
http://www.SavetheInternet.com
Send your comments to the FCC by clicking here.
[ This Message was edited by: DarkSpin on 2008-01-17 22:58 ]
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Leonide
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Joined: October 01, 2005
Posts: 1553
From: Newport News, Virginia
| Posted: 2008-01-17 22:52
teehee....they are sooooo busted!
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Winters Rapture
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Joined: December 09, 2007
Posts: 355
| Posted: 2008-01-18 02:18
W00t!
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FlyD4wn
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Joined: October 19, 2004
Posts: 138
From: Netherlands
| Posted: 2008-01-18 03:25
What is a comcast? 
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Winters Rapture
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Joined: December 09, 2007
Posts: 355
| Posted: 2008-01-18 03:44
lol it is an internet provider in eastern USA. (it stinks too)
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Eledore Massis [R33]
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Joined: May 26, 2002
Posts: 2695
From: tsohlacoLocalhost
| Posted: 2008-01-18 03:56
I heard the news at the start of this week, finally!
Its not that i can blame them, since i don't have Comcast. But i hope all other Internet Providers will learn from the mistake made by Comcast.
[dreaming]
If only we could standardize how a ISP backbone would look like, and have ISP cops 
Oo. judge dread action! 
[/dreaming]
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Shath
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Joined: July 17, 2007
Posts: 219
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2008-01-18 06:10
u mean that they makez itz soz I cantz go to sum sites?
those bastards!!! rawrrrrr
so how do I complain
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Julian Delphiki
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Joined: June 19, 2002
Posts: 171
| Posted: 2008-01-18 06:19
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On 2008-01-18 03:44, In Amber Clad wrote:
lol it is an internet provider in eastern USA. (it stinks too)
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All of US
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Ulven Skyblade
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Joined: March 04, 2007
Posts: 230
From: Timbo400
| Posted: 2008-01-18 06:29
This is what we call busted like hell
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$yTHe {C?}
Grand Admiral
Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: September 29, 2002
Posts: 1292
From: Arlington, VA
| Posted: 2008-01-18 10:38
Hey, I got that email too! Go Net Neutrality!
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BackSlash
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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2008-01-18 10:52
<3 England
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Sanity Assassin (K'Luth propaganda)
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Sanity Assassins
Joined: February 19, 2006
Posts: 919
From: Pittsburgh PA, USA
| Posted: 2008-01-18 12:35
im just gonna go ahead and say "F" as in funny....sure...COMCAST!
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G.Adm. Kirk
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Joined: May 13, 2005
Posts: 91
From: Baton Rouge, LA
| Posted: 2008-01-18 17:00
I <3 mah Bellsouth/ATT connection. No blocks here...
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Feralwulf
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Joined: January 24, 2004
Posts: 1729
From: sitting somewhere drinking beer
| Posted: 2008-01-18 19:28
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On 2008-01-18 17:00, Vice Admiral Kirk wrote:
I <3 mah Bellsouth/ATT connection. No blocks here...
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You THINK.
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Fatal Rocko Willis
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Joined: March 01, 2003
Posts: 1336
From: Kentucky
| Posted: 2008-01-18 20:59
NO blocks on my Phone Company DSL... See Phone Company Service Providers (ATT, etc...) tend to be scrutinized more than cable tv/internet providers... They fall under a different provision (sp) of the FCC's admendments....
As a person who deals with FCC laws and provisions they do (cable company) try to bully around people anyway they can... its the only way they are going to be able to stay alive...
They are loosing the TV war with Satillite TV Companys since they can put more channels on TV than they can... so where do they make up thier money? In ISP duties.... They know that if they can make a secret pact with certain people(s) tho help prevent the spread of certain things (ie copyrighted materials) then they think they are in the right....
It will come down to this that you will not be able to use file-sharing software as we know it today.... It will, I beleive, come down to file sharing software going through a ISP clearing house to make sure that you are not sharing copyrighted materials.
For example... Person A wants to share a file.. say a song.. with Person B.. Person A logs into a Global File Sharing Network to send it to Person B... the Network checks to see if it is a blocked song or not... if it is the trade is blocked.. if not it is allowed to proceed...
This is why China does it... as a way to crackdown on the prolific copyright infringment... If the people with computers wouldn't copy, download, transfer, share so much junk on the internet with others via filesharing programs... (the old Kazaa K++, Bearshare and Limewire programs come to mind) then we would not have to police people like Comcast did on thier own... albeit without goverment oversight.
It is coming down to this... what Comcast did will become common within the USA before 2010... This is just the tip of the iceburg... I am surpriced it has not become Goverment Controled... It is not an infringment on your personal right to go anywhere on the internet.... They are just preventing you from being a bad person... from sending files to someone that has nbot payed for them legally....
Nuff Said...
Rocko
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