Feds Place Comcast Under Investigation

What comes around goes around ... I've recently reported here on the illegal actions of Comcast on our service last month prompting us to drop Comcast like a hot potato. In short, Comcast called and screamed their head off because we had exceeded our "unlimited" data transfer limits and admitted then and there that they were reading our private emails and viewing our private email attachments (and could do so under the Patriot Act). That, of course, prompted me to contact my boss, who, in turn, closed our Comcast account promptly.

Yesterday my boss got a call from some joker at Comcast who couldn't apologize enough, claimed it was all some kind of unbelievable mistake and noting Comcast would never hamper a customer's 'Net access or view their private email. My boss, generally a gentle easy-going guy, said he went livid and couldn't stop himself from cursing at the guy over the Comcast policies and poor service. The Comcast Rep was not happy at all the bad publicity we've been showering Comcast with and wanted to know how he could appease and/or make amends and bring us back into the fold of Comcast.

That angered the boss so much that he told the Comcast Rep we'd never go back to Comcast, in fact, our goal was to shut Comcast down and to ensure no customer is EVER inflicted with such harassment again. "Just be thankful we haven't filed a major lawsuit against Comcast and we're still considering doing that!" he bellowed into the guy's ear.

What prompted the call? Was it the depositions we gave to the California State Attorney General, the onslaught of Congressional complaints we've fired off to Pelosi, Feinstein, Lofgren and every other lawmaker in California? Could it be our demand to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that they halt all access to Comcast services by City and County residents who are forced by near monopoly to accept Comcast and only Comcast? Or the many articles now appearing in every nationwide newspaper about the Feds putting Comcast under investigation?

We don't care what it is - what we know is that Comcast needs to be stopped in its tracks now - today and every reader should speak out and demand the law of 'Net neutrality be enforced. For every incident Comcast has incurred upon their customers of throttling, illegal reading of private email and their attachments, monitoring of up and downloads, reporting any activity to anyone without a court order, Comcast should be required to pay up - and the law says $195,000 per incident.

For more information, SFGate ran an article entitled "Study: Cox, Comcast Internet Subscribers Blocked" on their website yesterday. Click the link and read all about it then write your Congressperson and let's shut Comcast down today!