28.11.2017 - 23:14 [ Techdirt ]

Comcast Spent Millions Repealing Net Neutrality, Now Wants You To Believe It Won‘t Take Full, Brutal Advantage

Comcast also hopes you‘ve forgotten this debate began, in part, when Comcast decided to throttle the upstream traffic of all BitTorrent users on the Comcast network without telling anybody, then lied about it repeatedly. Similarly, Comcast hopes you don‘t realize that as people grew wise to ham-fisted throttling and blocking, ISPs began abusing net neutrality in other, more „creative“ ways — like intentionally letting peering points congest in order to drive up costs for transit and content operators who foolishly wanted their traffic to reach consumers unimpeded (aka „double dipping,“ or less generously: extortion).