[BikerJoe]

Bullcrap. This is a ‘solution’ in search of a problem. Name for us what sites were slowed down and by whom, please. All of the morons advocating this are just losers who are willing to sell out everyone’s one true platform for freedom of speech because they think their damn torrents will download a couple minutes sooner. They should all be ashamed.

For me, this has nothing to do with torrents or porn sites, just ensuring that no censorship occurs or competition inhibited. That being said, I hereby apologize and acknowledge that I stand corrected. Some ISPs WERE thinking about somehow favoring access to their "portal" site and inhibiting access to other portal sites, but that obviously died a deserving death. Upon further research, most reports of "site blocking" seem to be either DNS screwups or security action due to suspicious activity originating from the site or web host.

Overall, I favor competition and just want multiple options for a cheap, open fat pipe to my home.

I also realize that most inhibitors to this are govt. (gotta guarantee only one provider to the community so they can recoup their costs, you know).

[Moose Burger]

“Some ISPs WERE thinking about somehow favoring access to their “portal” site and inhibiting access to other portal sites...”

Do you mean like old time AOL? Before what we know now as “internet” there were providers that let you dial in to their servers, and then you had access to their content, and getting out to other networks was kind of “second rate” access. That didn’t stick. Competition gave direct access to “the net” (not “a portal”) and AOL eventually switched to what we know now.