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"FCC chief says Comcast violated Net principles" by Associataed Press | July 11, 2008
WASHINGTON - The head of the Federal Communications Commission said yesterday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.
The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of "file sharing" software that allows them to exchange large amounts of data. Comcast has "arbitrarily" blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to disclose to consumers that it was doing so.
They better not do that to me; that's why I'm switching over!
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