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Well, it looks like we have a list of exactly who NOT to re-elect come next voting season.  SaveTheInternet.com has a list of 74 Democratic members of Congress who have just signed an industry-drafted letter (yes, re-read that, Congress didn’t even write the damn thing, they just signed it) urging the FCC to abandon efforts to protect Net Neutrality and promote universal broadband access. If you don’t know what Net Neutrality is, you better find out quick and get behind it unless you want your ‘net access to start sucking.

Make sure to read Will Dirty Politics Kill the Internet? – via SaveTheInternet.com

You guys ever wonder what the “Fury” in Geek Fury came from? This is the kinda shit that starts up my <FURY> mode. Simpleton, ignorant, and yet somehow powerful people who are making very important decisions about nothing about which they know. (Remember the “Internet is a series of tubes” remark by ‘ol Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)) Let’s face it, most of these members of Congress probably barely know how to e-mail, let alone can understand (or will take the time to) how very important Net Neutrality is to the future of a healthy democracy – no matter which side of the political party fence you sit upon.

Now I don’t wanna hear any political bullshit in the comments section. I don’t care if it’s a Democrat, Republican or whatever that votes against Net Neutrality, if they vote against it, they’re on my Shit List. Plain and simple.

I strongly suggest everyone who reads this go to the SaveTheInterent.com’s page listing all the Democratic members of Congress who signed this Industry-drafted letter to the FCC and you give them a piece of your mind. Especially if they’re your representative. This list above is just Democrats, but the Republicans are getting the same pressure. So let’s snap them out of it before they do the same damn foolish thing too.

Let’s show those bastards that this is still America – Where it’s By the People – For the People, and that we elected their sorry asses and we can vote them right back out. They better not underestimate the power of those “tubes”…

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Wired.com reports (read whole article) that Comcast admitted last Friday that, contrary to its former statement to the FCC, it does actually throttle traffic through certain protocols.

Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic — maneuvers it has repeatedly denied.

The cable concern said (.pdf) it indeed hit “particular protocols that were generating disproportionate amounts of traffic.” The peer-to-peer protocols, Comcast said, include Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella — vehicles used to transport copyrighted material without the owners’ permission.

Granted, P2P apps may be used for illegal purposes, such as downloading copyrighted materials, it does provide positive uses as well. I seem to remember when I used to play WoW, it utilized P2P technology to provide game updates. Now, whether or not Comcast’s blanket throttling of P2P protocals affected WoW and other legal uses of P2P, I don’t know. I don’t play WoW anymore (wish I could though), and I don’t have Comcast. But if I ever have to make a choice of subscribing to Comcast or another service, I will be seriously looking into Comcast’s operating procedures.

I don’t like the idea of Comcast deciding for me, “what’s best for me”, no matter what the issue is. If I wanted a corporation doing my thinking for me, I would have… well I don’t want a corporation EVER doing my thinking for me. IMHO, most corporations can barely make decent decisions for themselves, let alone for a person they’ve never met, know nothing about, nor care about.

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