The Internet is just that...inter connected computers. Like the telephone. No one owns the the entire global phone system. Different companies from different countries all connect together. They just charge you differently for the same services. Internet ISP’s would love to charge you extra for looking at different websites or playing games. Used to be data was free...now your limited....and now you pay extra for that “freedom”. If Comcast doesn’t like a certain set of websites (Conservative) they may charge you extra(slam) your bill for going there under the excuse that it caused too much “congestion.
” If Comcast doesn’t like a certain set of websites (Conservative) they may charge you extra(slam) your bill for going there under the excuse that it caused too much “congestion.”
This, of course, is nonsense. Pigs “may” fly, but will they?
As was already pointed out, that is garbage. But here is why. For access to be restricted that access would actually have to cause "too much congestion", not just as an excuse but in reality. The reason is that any service or access can be accessed by embedding it in any other service undetectably (by Comcast or anyone else). There is an exception of course, and that is streaming video. It is impossible to stream video undetectably except in even higher bandwidth streaming video.
Comcast has every right to throttle streaming video, both from a business standpoint and from a moral standpoint. That's because streaming video is entertainment or just drivel. As one example, CNN s is streaming video, and it is of course garbage. If you however want to disseminate or view a video for 1st amendment reasons and Comcast wanted to censor it, then that video could be transmitted more slowly in embedded in any other content or service. It would undetectable and unstoppable by Comcast or anyone else short of completely disconnecting your internet service. It would not be streaming live but that is of little value particularly when considering 1st amendment purposes (dissemination)
“Used to be data was free”
TANSTAAFL.