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Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repealComcast still won't block or throttlebut paid prioritization may be on the way.
JON BRODKIN - 11/27/2017, 11:31 AM
For years, Comcast has been promising that it won't violate the principles of net neutrality, regardless of whether the government imposes any net neutrality rules. That meant that Comcast wouldn't block or throttle lawful Internet traffic and that it wouldn't create fast lanes in order to collect tolls from Web companies that want priority access over the Comcast network.
This was one of the ways in which Comcast argued that the Federal Communications Commission should not reclassify broadband providers as common carriers, a designation that forces ISPs to treat customers fairly in other ways. The Title II common carrier classification that makes net neutrality rules enforceable isn't necessary because ISPs won't violate net neutrality principles anyway, Comcast and other ISPs have claimed.
But with Republican Ajit Pai now in charge at the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast's stance has changed. While the company still says it won't block or throttle Internet content, it has dropped its promise about not instituting paid prioritization.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-quietly-drops-promise-not-to-charge-tolls-for-internet-fast-lanes/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)GOD DAMN anyone who EVER said they WOULDNT
GOD DAMN them to HELL
This is the ballgame, folks.
Game
Set
Matc ... ... ...
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Before it can start up the "reeducation" camps for liberal democrats and start building walls in earnest.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"If you've got the money, honey, we've got less time!"
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)It tears me up but I may have no choice. I will cancel my cable and land line first if it will make it possible but I have a feeling they will fix it so it will not make a difference. My life is not much right now and the net saves me I am not happy about how much worse my life is going to be if this happens.
I am also scared that with no cable or internet we will not know anything about what is going on in our world until it is to late. How can we fight if we do not know what is going on? Of course that is what they want.
FakeNoose
(32,706 posts)They are all going to do it, don't kid yourself.
Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner, they're all looking for a payday. We'll all be screwed with no privacy or governmental oversight, and we're all gonna pay.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)How much will they jack up the price?