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Cable Industry Taking Control of the Net

Posted by michael on from the don't-touch-that-dial dept.

Tompaine.com has a piece warning of measures that cable internet providers are taking to control their users' experiences online. We've touched on this before, but this issue needs a lot of attention and it has gotten very little from the mainstream press.

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  1. This Was Interesting... by tealover · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I read it at Broadband.com

    I need to put together a perl script to scrape news stories from over the internet and mass submit them to slashdot. It appears everyone does that.

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  2. What? by photon317 · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    It's my 400th post, so I thought I'd make a totally offtopic post on whatever topic was at the top of the page.

    Happy 400th post to me!
    Happy 400th post to me!

    Well, that doesn't even match syllables with the bidrthday song does it?

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