Comcast

So Comcast has been becoming one of the dirtiest corporations around. They have been caught throttling traffic and now they are censoring. Do you use comcast? Try going to EZTV.it. It won't work. They distribute downloads from Switzerland or Denmark and they've been reporting problems for Comcast users in the States for a long time. Their twitter feed is working and you can see them posting the downloads but their links won't work since yesterday, December 1.

They've also released a trial for their Bandwidth Meter in the Portland, OR market yesterday, December 1. If you care to read the blog post they are referring their customers to in the area click here. Be sure to notice that they tell you 99% of users use 4 gigs a month. That is bullshit. With the growth of hulu, netflix, itunes, youtube, VoiP, torrents etc monthly bandwidth on average for the person under 40 is likely closer to a couple hundred gigs. Then you have people with families that have more than one person on the internet.

Basically comcast is trying to cap the internet, so you can only get so much of it a month and every little bit you go over you will be charged. Everyone knows that TV is moving off the airwaves and onto the internet. I'd like to point out the extreme popularity of Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, and Youtube again. Just incase you didn't know who owned Hulu, it is NBC. The company that Comcast is buying right now. Net neutrality is a huge issue right now and no one is covering it at all. The same day this meter came out I can download a link off my phone (ATT) but not off my computer (comcast). That is censorship. What else will they decide to censor?

In case you didn't know this too, last month legislation was passed that allows the government to censor the internet and completely shut down access to entire communities (lets say the state of Washington) , or just certain sites (we'll use Huffington Post), in case of emergency.... Had Iran had that all in place a year ago, we wouldn't have gotten any of those twitter or youtube videos that we were using as news coverage of their election. I'm just saying.

I encourage you to read the comments on the comcast blog about their meter too. It's funny because I pay comcast for access to the internet. Not for the internet itself. Not only do we (as a country) have some of the slowest speeds in the world, we are going to be charged per site (we already pay 100's of percent more than the rest of the world btw), per gig, and only allowed access to the portions that the corporations will allow us to see. This all sounds sensational, but I know that you guys read news on the internet and have likely seen articles on the subject quite a few times over the past 2 years. This is what those articles were warning about.

This is ALL 100% true and happening. If anything seems unbelievable, Google it (while you still can).