Cable Packet Shaping Causing Slowdowns

knorthern knight writes "To counter P2P programs that encrypt their traffic to evade detection, Rogers Cable in Canada has apparently started degrading all encrypted IP traffic, according to a post on Michael Geist's blog. How many of you log in to work over a VPN or ssh-tunnel? How many get usenet news or email over an encrypted connection? This could be a problem for Rogers Cable customers. Geist, who teaches at U of Ottawa, has 'been advised that the University computer help desk has received a steady stream of complaints from Rogers customers about off-campus email service.'"

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Re:Civil rights my arse

[Brian Ribbon]

Don't hold anything back, dude.

I really don't care about the opinion of a ranting, irrational person such as yourself. I welcome alternative opinions, but pure stupidity is just.... pointless. The irony is that people such as yourself, the men and women who attack paedophiles severely, eventually end up being outed as closeted child molesters or other losers.

Anyway, you probably don't even know what I stand for, do you? I hate kiddiefuckers as much as you do, but if you tell me that I should be kept away from spending (non-sexual) time with children or accept attacks because of my attraction to children, I will tell you that it simply is not going to happen. Get over it.

Law enforcement may be able to track me down. Who knows what powers Big Brother has? The point you miss is that it is not illegal to be attracted to children, so they can't put me in jail for it.

Every attack against me makes me more determined to defend my rights to exist as a person with human rights. You have no right to treat me as anything other than human, since I have never committed an offense against a child and I do not intend to commit such an offense - children are the only people I care about.

And please, don't talk like a tough guy using the Anonymous Coward option. It really doesn't sell.