| Another one This is another one of those issues that supporters will say just make sense but the practical application of such would be a nightmare. Would you say we needed a law that broadband providers could not block ANY content? Even something heinous like live murders? If you say only block some things, then who decides what gets blocked and what doesn't? The FCC? The same organization that gets ripped here everyday? Congress? Most people here seem to think Congress is all on the take. That's the problem with government regulations, there aren't many reasonable people working for the government. Put three Republicans and three Democrats in a room and whatever they manage to agree upon is guaranteed to satisfy no one. Leave the market alone unless you absolutely can't leave it alone. |
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@cisco.com | Oh, come on. So you don't approach a problem because you think it might be too hard to solve?
I would sue Comcast the first time they altered one of my webpages mid-stream. It happened to Gator, and it will happen to them.
What it comes down to is copyright infringement. Comcast is using competitors' copyrighted webpages for their own personal profit. While Comcast certainly has the right to terminate service to any of their own customers for any reason (just read your ToS), they have no legal standing to modify data coming from upstream.
The right place to fight this behavior is in the courts, not the FCC. We don't need government regulation, the requisite laws are already there.
Anyway, this problem will disappear over time. Processor power is cheap and only getting cheaper, and you will see more and more pages are SSL'd by default, not just when you're typing in your credit card number. |
