Net Neutrality

The following is from the Save The Internet site.

What Comcast is doing is inspecting the packets of information users send over BitTorrent and similar peer-to-peer protocols. When Comcast’s technology identifies a file being uploaded over BitTorrent, it intercepts and terminates the transmission by falsifying the TCP to look like one of the end users. As Professor Susan Crawford explains: “It’s as if someone else that sounded like you got on the phone as you were talking to your mother and said, ‘We need to hang up right now.’ ”Comcast’s behavior, which AP calls “the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider,” is what a world without Net Neutrality looks like.

The large telecoms are trying to control Internet content in a way that was not intended. This is a strategy that most large telecoms are utilizing. The next movement by these large firms will be to create software that will automatically screen any blogger that mentions the large firms name. Save the Internet for bloggers.