Quote:Do you even understand how our government works?

 

Comcast is lobbying to get rid of Net Neutrality -- but you can lobby for a lot of things, it doesn't mean it will happen without government support.  


Let's not forget that PIPA was introduced by the Democrats, and was co-sponsored by more democrats than Republicans.  

 

Actually you have it backward. Comcast doesn't have to maintain neutrality at all, and hasn't been. They've intentionally been intentionally forcing Netflix traffic through crowded peering points to degrade their service, something the other big players (at&t and verizon) have also been doing.

 

The problem was the government's authority to regulate them as an information service was struck down by a court. The FCC needs to classify broadband as a common carrier utility (like phone service) then it could be properly regulated again.

 



 

Note that September of 2013 (when the big three started degrading Netflix's service) was when the FCC's authority to regulate broadband as an information service was struck down and January of 2014 is when Netflix relented and started paying comcast to deliver the data which comcast's customers already paid to receive.

---