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[ PRIVACY Forum ] New York Times: Net Neutrality and Economic
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Wed May 9 14:09:13 2012
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Net Neutrality and Economic Equality Are Intertwined
http://j.mp/Jyv0xe (New York Times)
"If I watch last night's 'S.N.L.' episode on my Xbox through the Hulu
app, it eats up about one gigabyte of my cap, but if I watch that same
episode through the Xfinity Xbox app, it doesn't use up my cap at
all," Mr. Hastings wrote on his Facebook page. "In what way is this
neutral?" Comcast argues that its Xfinity move is not subject to the
Federal Communications Commission's neutrality rules because the video
travels exclusively on its network and not on the public Internet.
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I will note that Comcast's excuse is -- in my opinion -- specious,
since they alone determine how much of their total cable bandwidth
they devote to "outside" Internet access services, how much those
cost, where arbitrary bandwidth caps are set, and so on. All without
any effective regulatory oversight whatsoever. This is *exactly* the
anticompetitive scenario that many of us have been warning about for
years.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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