Senators Call For Hearing On Carrier Content Blocking

HangingChad writes "Two Senators on Friday called for a congressional hearing to investigate reports that phone and cable companies are unfairly stifling communications over the Internet and on cell phones. Now that the Senate is getting into the act, Comcast will probably want to come up with some new talking points as their old ones were leaked."

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it's not a truck

[User 956]

Comcast will probably want to come up with some new talking points as their old ones were leaked.

Well, leaks happen when your whole infrastructure is nothing but a series of tubes.

Re:Another reason my nickname for them is appropri

[jlarocco]

Gees, talk about missing the obvious: Concast.

Re:"What would the Founding Fathers say?"

[NeverVotedBush]

The founding fathers are old and dead. They had a view of what democracy would be like, and I suppose it worked for a while. However, now times have changed. Their model simply doesn't fit any more. It main weakness is that it often blocks economic growth of the US, or security measures that the public want. This gradual shift from the constitution being the most important set of laws is the natural reaction to its slide into irrelevancy.

Dubya? Is that you posting as an anonymous coward?

Re:The fallocy of equivocation

[sunwukong]

Comcast has been caught with the cigar in the dame, its time for them to come clean How I wish that part of my brain that completes metaphors wasn't working when I read this.

Re:unfair vs. illiegal

[dangitman]

Imagine in 1995 if telcos made a 30 minute limit on non-voice phone calls. Where would we be now?

Outside? At a girlfriend's house?