Comcast decides what you see.
Pretty much speaks for itself. Following in the footsteps of AOL, which blocks content critical of AOL, Comcast recently censored a Nightline session that highlighted the sleeping technician story. Now that's customer service for you...not only has the problem been taken care of, they're so sure it's been taken care of that they don't want to waste your time letting Nightline tell you about it to begin with.
Man, what would I do without Comcast censoring my news? Wouldn't I be deluged with all this awful information? Good thing we don't have network neutrality; that would have been a real bummer. Imagine Comcast not being able to censor websites and email the same way they censor what I see on TV?
Though *of course* Comcast would never censor something as fundamental as the news service...I mean, that would completely go against what consumers want, right? And if they did it, they'd lose millions of customers overnight, etc? And our AT resident telco experts tell us that there's *no way* they would ever censor the internet, since that would be against consumer interest and they'd lose customers there, too.
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Sure, some of us hate the news. Sure, it's biased. But for your cable TV provider to be able to legally censor what news you are allowed to see is ridiculous. As ridiculous as the lack of network neutrality protections in the United States that allows this both for our TV and our internet access. Sure, we'll shake our heads when India and China censor blogs the government doesn't like; but we turn the other way and refuse to believe it when Comcast follows suit?
Dave.
Pretty much speaks for itself. Following in the footsteps of AOL, which blocks content critical of AOL, Comcast recently censored a Nightline session that highlighted the sleeping technician story. Now that's customer service for you...not only has the problem been taken care of, they're so sure it's been taken care of that they don't want to waste your time letting Nightline tell you about it to begin with.
Man, what would I do without Comcast censoring my news? Wouldn't I be deluged with all this awful information? Good thing we don't have network neutrality; that would have been a real bummer. Imagine Comcast not being able to censor websites and email the same way they censor what I see on TV?
Though *of course* Comcast would never censor something as fundamental as the news service...I mean, that would completely go against what consumers want, right? And if they did it, they'd lose millions of customers overnight, etc? And our AT resident telco experts tell us that there's *no way* they would ever censor the internet, since that would be against consumer interest and they'd lose customers there, too.
</sarcasm>
Sure, some of us hate the news. Sure, it's biased. But for your cable TV provider to be able to legally censor what news you are allowed to see is ridiculous. As ridiculous as the lack of network neutrality protections in the United States that allows this both for our TV and our internet access. Sure, we'll shake our heads when India and China censor blogs the government doesn't like; but we turn the other way and refuse to believe it when Comcast follows suit?
Dave.
