It has begun.
Customers who use Comcast, an Internet service provider have complained that Comcast are blocking some of the content online,even stopping users from accessing the Internet at times. Comcast deny the allegations and claim that they are just keeping the traffic of their users at a measurable rate to avoid 'congestion' on the system.
Could this be true? It probably is and i'm sure that the web has Big Brother tendencies but to actually stop users viewing certain pages by shutting down their Internet makes me very nervous.
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I've not read this particular story but it's not uncommon. The reason usually has far less to do with censorship and much more to do with poor service levels. Some ISPs simply don't have adequate capacity and one way of sharing out what resources they do have is to restrict certain services - a couple of big ISPs block the protocol layer used by the Open University's online software.
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