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Comcast: Poster child for Net Neutrality

Unfair - ValleywagThanks, Comcast, for pushing the cause of Net Neutrality! The Internet provider just made headlines by blocking e-mail from an old-school web community. It's just the latest effort by Comcast to be so awful at delivering an uninhibited Internet that lawmakers will have to pass a Net Neutrality law just to shut consumers up. Among Comcast's exploits:

  • Comcast blocks e-mails from The WELL [Mercury News]
  • Comcast gives the worst. customer support. ever. [Consumerist]
  • Comcast sells premium service that gives customers the interference-free Internet they should already get. [NewsForge]

8:21 PM on Wed Aug 30 2006
By Nick Douglas
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