It's not often you'll see journalists actually remember what a company has said historically on a subject in order to provide a little context (and to illustrate how, a majority of the time, companies are incredibly full of crap). But someone went back to look at NBC Universal's positions on network neutrality before they wanted to merge with Comcast, and not too surprisingly -- they were a bit -- different. Techdirt notes how NBC Universal was of course absolutely positively against the AOL Time Warner merger in a 2000 letter, and was up in arms over the possible anti-competitive ramifications of such huge content deals:What's more, NBC Universal very much wanted the FCC to create strong rules protecting the sector from the anti-competitive repercussions of such a huge entity:Now of course that NBC Universal and Comcast are engaged in an even bigger deal -- all those opinions have been conveniently discarded. Of course these are the discarded opinions of NBC Universal's General Counsel, Rick Cotton, who you'll recall once argued that piracy was a menace to America's corn farmers.