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Comcast and BitTorrent Become "Net-Neutral" Friends

Also, with respect to the ownership of the lines, I’m not talking about the initial DARPA project which became the Internet of today. I’m talking about this:

www.newnetworks.com/Sh...

All the money and tax breaks given to the telcos as incentive to upgrade their networks to true broadband 15 years ago went right into their pockets. And now, they are trying to claim net neutrality as their enemy, and the cause for why they cannot upgrade their infrastructures while our nation falls behind. Look at how broadband works in Japan and parts of Europe – they’ve had true broadband for years. The telcos are holding progress hostage, by using it as leverage to get net neutrality repealed. Net neutrality doesn’t cripple advancement, ISPs overselling capacity is the real problem here. Abolishing network neutrality just makes it easier for them to continue overselling without upgrading the old copper lines.

And you can’t compare ownership of an apartment building to ownership of the Internet. The Internet is a construct of the people who use it, bloggers, web designers, entrepreneurs, etc. It’s not any more or less “owned” by any one person than any other marketplace.

“We are slowly sliding into the morass of socialism in every aspect of our society. This "we the little people" vs "them - the greedy capitalist pig businesses" net neutrality argument is just another example.”

You can’t be serious. Net neutrality is socialist now? And while I don’t normally subscribe to the “greedy capitalist pig businesses” thought process, I make an exception for the telecommunications industry. Their history of fraud and corruption is far too deep to ignore. Repeal net neutrality, and the telcos will ruin the Internet the same way they ruined every other medium of communication. All this talk about competition is hogwash, unless you genuinely believe you are getting fair service on your cable TV, cell phone, and/or land-line long distance plans.