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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
There's a difference between charging someone for using more bandwidth (OK) and charging someone for using bandwidth in a particular manner (not OK). What Comcast was doing was the equivalent of a phone company charging you more to call homes than to call stores.
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And the real fear is more along the lines of a phone company over-charging or completely refusing to let you call someone who uses a different phone company.
If Comcast can regulate the type of traffic on their system, why couldn't they refuse to allow video from sites not affiliated with Comcast or NBC? Or force you to your local Comcast SportsNet channel's website for sports news instead of ESPN?
These types of decisions have the chance to radically affect how the Internet looks both in the short-term and in the long-term in regards to things like the ability to share information freely.