Because, Verizon, you're gonna lose. And you're gonna lose bad.
MoreYou'd think the kind of people who claim to be dedicated to individual liberty and freedom would be all for net neutrality, but apparently it's Communist or something.
MoreWe don't mean to tease libertarians, but it's just so easy when they automatically default to "the free market solves everything.
MoreWe mentioned a while back that Comcast had decided that they would just stone-cold ignore the rules over net neutrality, declaring that using their streaming apps and other goodies on the XBox 360 wouldn't count against customer data caps.That smells bad to a lot of people, including Vint Cerf, one of the key players in writing TCP/IP, and essentially one of the founding fathers of the modern Internet.
MoreLook, Comcast, we get it: you think we're stupid.
MoreAs you may have heard, starting July 12th, ISPs like Comcast and Time Warner and the RIAA have entered into an agreement where, if they see "suspicious activity," they'll offer a "graduated response," essentially sending you a few nasty emails and then cutting off your Internet service.
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