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I hate to admit it, but the big moron has finally said something I might agree with. There should be just enough “neutrality” on the net to keep Comcast (or any other ISP) from putting Neflix, Vonage, or other emerging competitors out of business.

And you would be wrong...

Companies like Netflix are hogging the bandwidth that you would normally use therefore it costs the cable companies more money to upgrade their services.

Instead of passing those costs to Netflix [which is raking in millions] they will be forced to pass the coasts onto everyone [that means YOU pay more]...

There should be just enough “neutrality” on the net to keep Comcast (or any other ISP) from putting Neflix, Vonage, or other emerging competitors out of business.

Really? So you are against competition for the consumer? Care to explain this and, while you are at that, why internet, unlike any other transportation conduit, should free from price discrimination?

I hate to admit it, but the big moron has finally said something I might agree with. There should be just enough “neutrality” on the net to keep Comcast (or any other ISP) from putting Neflix, Vonage, or other emerging competitors out of business.

First, government regulation is almost NEVER the solution to any problem; it just makes it worse. Second, I can see free market forces possibly stopping this without government intervention. For example, let's say Comcast decides to limit the bandwidth for Netflix streaming. Well, then people who like Netflix streaming will go with another ISP. Any ISP that wants to get a leg up on Comcast would declare that they don't interfere with Netflix streaming, or anything else, et voila, Comcast loses a lot of business.

I agree, I am sensitive to any restrictions on the internet or any pricing discrimination.

I do believe the control will come from the left. They cannot take the freedom that the internet can bring. It has turned the Arab world upside down. The internet is a pure instrument of our Constitution - it is literally the breath of life for the First Amendment. That is why Cuba just locked up an American for 15 years in Castro’s filthy prisons for the crime of distributing internet equipment. Castro is a leftist gangster who has no better right to be a Cuban dictator than Desi Arnez Jr. This is what he does because he and his gangster imp brother are so afraid of free speech and their final deposing that it will bring that they put journalists in prison. They are paranoid gangsters who realize they have stolen an entire nation and are not giving it back.

For all you Hollywood idiots that have praised Castro - Danny Glover, Oliver Stone, Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Sean Penn, Chevy Chase, Ed Asner, why don’t you go to Cuba and ask Castro to turn on the internet? Do something for freedom instead of attacking America? Yeah right - phonies!

Get rid of cable TV’s monopoly power, and I’ll be happy to allow Comcast to compete in the market and try to drive bandwidth competitors out.

I hate to admit it, but the big moron has finally said something I might agree with. There should be just enough “neutrality” on the net to keep Comcast (or any other ISP) from putting Neflix, Vonage, or other emerging competitors out of business.

Precisely. Millions of Americans live where there's a single choice for broadband internet: a gov't-granted monopoly cable company.