I helped a friend move today. While carrying stuff around the topic of Comcast buying NBC came up. Here’s the story on NPR. Comcast, who is quickly becoming one of the largest cable and internet companies in the land is in the process exchanging blows with the FCC over the legality of this merger. Looks like the courts are not seeing things eye to eye with the FCC, who does not want to allow the merge.
This isn’t an issue of good or bad customer service. This is an issue of those creating the content and those distributing the content becoming the same players. When this happens it is tempting to throttle access to the competitor. The implications are large. News content being filtered through company policy and evaluated for how it will effect company profits before it is approved to be released to the customers and the citizenry.
This and other battles for net neutrality will not play out on your television. Though it is in YOUR best interest to watch these debates, it is NOT in the best interest of your data provider.
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