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Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments
jfruh writes Conservative groups opposed to net neutrality have a beef with the FCC, claiming the commission helped pro-net neutrality advocates file comments on the subject without similarly helping opponents. In other news out of this camp, it turns out American Commitment, an advocacy group with ties to the Republican billionaire Koch brothers, sent out 2.4 million letters to Congress opposing net neutrality but only collected about 814,000 signatures. The group then generated three letters to Congress for each person signing the petition, one letter to each of the signer's two senators and one to each signer's representative.
You would think that conservatives that believe everyone should have an equal voice without government intervention would be behind a move to make it that companies can't throttle traffic from any provider and that the consumer is the one that pays for the bandwidth up to the point of the ISP's border router.
If I buy a plan from Comcast or Verizon it is rated at a specific speed on which they all put transfer caps.
I should be allowed full bandwidth to any file, video, webpage that I want to view on my computer.
I should not have the government making deals where huge companies are allowed to take over 60% of the broadband market and then strongarm companies like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Youtube or any provider of any type of content to make them pay more when a comcast customer views their content.. just so it will stream correctly.
If comcast has issues with use during the evening and with more people now cutting out their tv station and going with a mixture of antenna and netflix or another provider its because Comcast is not serving their customers.
I would be more than happy to pay Comcast $10 a month for 10 stations that I pick that are not pay such as HBO or sports packages. All I want is locals, FoxNews and a Couple networks like Discovery, FoodTV and a sports channel to watch Baseball and Hockey since the teams wont broadcast on Over Antenna stations anymore.
But it is a Scam.. We have to pay for 125 channels in the basic digital lineup and in my home the very maximum would be 25 channels that we ever watch.. with a normal day being 5 channels that we watch.
I don't want to pay for BET or OWN or MSNBC which comcast owns .. or Al Jazera or crap i don't watch and don't support...
I want 10 cable stations and my local OTA stations which would bring me up to about 35 channels since the antenna channels in my area have a lot of subchannels.. that would be amazing if I could pay$10 just for that.. and $25 more a month for basic broadband that would give me 500KBps down and 100KBps Up...
I could live with $35 a month for that and that is what it should be for me.
Right now I pay $115 a month and the only difference is I get 100 stations that i NEVER watch .. NEVER
And that is why everyone is dropping comcast's tv lineup
And Republicans and Democrats and the FCC need to realize the reason things have changed is because our bills have doubled or more in the past 10 years yet we don't get more.
We were all forced to move to Digital TVs .. Yet comcast's basic digital takes TV Signal that is broadcast over the air which I can get as 1080p with an antenna and they dumb it down to 480p ... the same is true for all of their basic digital stations which broadcast in HD yet we have to pay Comcast $50 more a month and Rent more expensive boxes for each TV because if we don't Comcast Degrades the signals that I can get with an Antenna let alone any cable only network.
Comcast got Obama Elected .. they have racists like Al Sharpton on their MSNBC station that incite riots where tens of millions of dollars worth of stores are burnt to the ground and towns destroyed.. they are never held accountable for their acts.
They will not be held accountable for their business practices either.