New Legislation Could Eventually Lead to ISP Throttling Ban

An anonymous reader writes "Comcast's response to the FCC may have triggered a new avenue of discussion on the subject of Net Neutrality. Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, introduced a bill yesterday whose end result could be the penalization of bandwidth throttling to paying customers. 'The bill, tentatively entitled the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008, would not actually declare throttling illegal specifically. Instead, it would call upon the Federal Communications Commission to hold a hearing to determine whether or not throttling is a bad thing, and whether it has the right to take action to stop it.'"

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Personally,

[dippitydoo]

I think they should be maimed and their head put on a post in the village for the public to see. In a nice way of Course :)

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:What about the other end?

[Frosty Piss]

What *I* object to is being on a cable loop where someone like *you* is hogging all the bandwidth for your torrents, while 90% of the other customers on that loop suffer. Mybe you should find a conection service that more fits your needs rather than FUCKING all your neighbors doing something the service you have is not designed for?

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