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Comcast: A Gatekeeper with a Heavy Hand?
From: Save The Internet
Cable giant Comcast reportedly axed a critical segment on ABC Nightline from its Internet video-on-demand service.
The removal of the segment raises significant doubts about cable company promises that they would never block or degrade users’ choice of content on the Internet. The Nightline incident indicates otherwise.
Last week, Comcast Vice President David Cohen wrote in a Philly Inquirer Op-Ed that “net-neutrality proponents are marching a new parade of horribles down Hypothetical Boulevard.” Cohen called “phantoms” citizens’ concerns that Comcast or other ISPs would play gatekeeper to Web content. He mouthed phone and cable company lobbyist talking points writing that “Net neutrality is a solution in search of a problem.”
But the Nightline incident suggests that this “problem” is more real than Comcast would like to admit.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2006/07/19/comcast-a-problem-in-need-of-a-solution/
From: Save The Internet
Cable giant Comcast reportedly axed a critical segment on ABC Nightline from its Internet video-on-demand service.
The removal of the segment raises significant doubts about cable company promises that they would never block or degrade users’ choice of content on the Internet. The Nightline incident indicates otherwise.
Last week, Comcast Vice President David Cohen wrote in a Philly Inquirer Op-Ed that “net-neutrality proponents are marching a new parade of horribles down Hypothetical Boulevard.” Cohen called “phantoms” citizens’ concerns that Comcast or other ISPs would play gatekeeper to Web content. He mouthed phone and cable company lobbyist talking points writing that “Net neutrality is a solution in search of a problem.”
But the Nightline incident suggests that this “problem” is more real than Comcast would like to admit.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2006/07/19/comcast-a-problem-in-need-of-a-solution/
