FCC Says Comcast Throttling Widespread

A few days ago I reported on Comcast's illegal throttling, disrupting of service and admission of reading customer emails and viewing email attachments. Several readers poo-pooed the idea, claiming I was a nutcase.

As a three-year Comcast customer I can attest to the fact that Comcast really does throttle your service and they openly admitted to me in a very heated telephone conversation that they did not like the contents of my emails nor my email attachments. I told them then and there any viewing or reading of my emails was a blatant invasion of privacy and their response was "Under the Patriot Act we have every right to read anything that goes out over our network..."

Suffice it to say I quickly ended my service with Comcast. And I recommend you do the same.

On Tuesday the FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, testified before a Senate Committee on the investigation into Comcast's throttling practices and revealed that Comcast not only throttled customer traffic but does so continuously, for no reason at all other then they can do it. Mr. Martin revealed that Comcast is offering more services to more customers then their own system can handle and rather then improve their system, they are holding customers access back by throttling. If you are paying additional service charges for VOIP over Comcast and find your calls are continually dropped or you have no dial tone at all, that's because Comcast is doing it on purpose. They want your money but they don't want you to use their bandwidth and VOIP takes a LOT of bandwidth! Are your "on Demand" TV shows unavailable? That's because Comcast keeps them unavailable to save on bandwidth. Do you suddenly find your computer frozen - for no apparent reason? That's called "disrupting service" which is what Comcast is doing. They are shutting off your service in short bursts and that causes your computer to go into a freeze. Of course, they charge you for all three services and claim they are giving you "unlimited" service but that's a bald faced lie.

You are probably reading this blog while connected to Comcast. If that's the case I highly recommend you call Comcast right now and try to close your account. They will fight you tooth and nail. They will promise to close the account but they will leave it running "for free" for another month for you to reconsider. And they will call or email you repeatedly to ask that you reconsider.

Again, I recommend you close your Comcast account ASAP. AND I recommend you contact Senator Dianne Feinstein and tell her to shove her vote to allow Comcast to continue throttling you as far up her hat as she can. Feinstein receives a big bundle of constant flowing political support from Comcast and votes each and every time to either block consumers from filing legal claims against Comcast or votes to side with Comcast and AT&T to allow them to throttle your access to the internet.

If you don't do it then you get exactly what you deserve: a monopoly internet provider who reads your emails, views your email attachments, blocks you from surfing the web, hangs up your VOIP telephone calls and disrupts your cable TV shows any time they feel like it. And you have no one to blame but yourself.

FCC Caves In To Comcast

The head-honcho of the FCC, Kevin Martin, said Tuesday " there's no need for new regulation of the Internet," saying his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent discrimination by internet service providers. And yet his agency has done nothing to stop the throttling of bandwidth by the biggest ISP, Comcast.

As a former Comcast customer I can attest to the fact that Comcast not only throttled my service but admitted during a telephone call that they had been reading my emails and monitoring (viewing) my email attachments. The Comcast jerk who gloated when he told me this also said he had every right to do so under the Patriot Act and that it was normal practice for Comcast to monitor all email distributed over the Comcast system.

With this latest encouragement from the FCC, Comcast is now empowered to go even further. Forget a password and have it emailed to you? A Comcast employee will read and probably note it to gain access to your private web site accounts such as PayPal, your Bank, anything you pay a credit card with. Comcast is going to make sure you have NO privacy whatsoever if you use their service.

If you use Comcast for more than just Internet access then you'll pay even more for less broadband speed. Customers who have purchased Comcast's VOIP service find that if they use the VOIP to make a telephone call their internet and/or cable services comes to a crawl. Web pages won't load and television shows or movies halt in digital patterns on the screen. Worse yet, the calls are dropped when the caller extends his calls for longer then several minutes. The Comcast customer who buys Comcast's cable Internet service, VOIP and cable TV gets the same amount of broadband access as a Comcast customer buying only the Internet Service. In short, the Comcast customer who buys more services pays more and gets far less.

And the FCC says that is okay even though the FCC has conducted two hearings on "network management" following admissions by Comcast Corp. that it sometimes delayed file-sharing traffic for subscribers as a way to keep Web traffic flowing. If you are paying $100 a month for fast "unlimited" internet broadband service from Comcast you aren't getting it and you won't get it because the FCC says it is okay for Comcast to throttle or disrupt your access when you've exceeded your "unlimited" limit. How asinine is that?

Kyle McSlarrow, president and CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, described the picture painted by pro- net neutrality commenters as "a complete fantasy."

I'm here today to tell you Kyle McSlarrow is lying. As a customer with Comcast for three years paying an average fee of over $100 a month for broadband cable internet access, Comcast admitted to throttling and disrupting my service repeatedly because I refused to accept their claim that my "unlimited" access was subject to what they decided was unlimited. Comcast read my emails, watched as I passed along my credit card information, my bank information, my passwords and login information on everything I did while connected to their service. And they are doing the very same thing to you whether you believe it or not.

McSlarrow said of the tens of millions of people who use the Internet every day, "no one is being blocked" and if they were, they could go to another competitor.

As a former Comcast customer I did just that - I moved to Comcast's biggest competitor and I couldn't be happier. I suggest you do the same today.

FCC - Shutdown Comcast Today!

FCC Open Hearing on Net Neutrality
Thursday April 17, 12-7pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
471 Lagunita Dr
Stanford, CA 94305

FCC Testimonial Training
Sunday April 13, 4-6pm
Media Center
900 San Antonio Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303

The FCC will be holding a hearing at Stanford University on April 17th and time is allotted for public comment.

Comcast has been caught blocking BitTorrent, reading customer emails, purposely disrupting customer's service, Verizon has been caught blocking text messages, AT&T wants to inspect and filter Web traffic. These big companies' efforts to discriminate online are crushing competition, slowing innovation, and endangering free speech. With so much at stake, it's encouraging that the FCC's first move is to quickly seek public feedback and expert counsel about the future of the Internet. It is rare for all five members of the Federal Communications Commission to leave Washington, D.C.

We are in a unique moment in history when we can help to decide whether we have a closed Internet controlled by a small handful of giant corporations, or an open Internet controlled by the people who use it. Now is the time to speak up for an open internet free from corporate
gatekeepers.

Let's shutdown Comcast.

Barack Hussein Obama A Homophobe

Barack Hussein Obama is a homophobe. A homophobe, for those of you in the dark, is a term used to describe irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuals. Barack Hussein Obama hates gay people with a passion.

What the press has conveniently hidden for quit some time now is the fact that Barack Hussein Obama will be no friend to the gay community if voted into office as President of these United States. And if he can stifle gay people even more then they are stifled today, he'll do it. Odd, isn't it? That a black man who claims to have faced the prejudice of the white world would have no problem discriminating against gay people? But it is true. Not only is Barack Hussein Obama a racist but he's a homophobe of the worst kind. Only idiots would support such an immoral candidate.

The Philadelphia Gay News has come out strongly against Barack Hussein Obama for his consistent refusal to speak to gay media outlets. This is because Hussein can't stand homosexuals. OTOH, Hillary Clinton has declared loudly that she will ensure all gay people are treated fairly by our Government. If you're a gay Government employee you know full well that you are treated as a second class, often a third class, employee. You aren't offered upward promotions and often stuck in low-paying grunt-work type jobs. If you are a white gay male then you clearly qualify as falling in to the lower third class of the Government employment. Today new hires are 90% minority, usually black, and their average pay grade is GS-12. That's a starting salary that almost all gay employees NEVER see through thirty years of employment.

Senator Barack Hussein Obama has repeatedly ignored the Gay community and won't give the Gay press the time of day. He's only spoken to the Gay press once as a Senator and that was because of the foul disgusting eruption caused by his best friend and anti-gay minister who accompanied him throughout his campaign in the South. If the world had not complained and demanded he be sent packing, Hussein would have him by his side today. Ask yourself this right now: "Have you ever heard Barack Hussein Obama ever speak out in support of gay anything? In support of gay marriage? Gay equality in housing, employment, medical care?" Answer: No you haven't. And you won't ever hear it from him.

If you are a Gay person and supporting Barack Hussein Obama then you are a total fool. This is a man who would not hesitate to ensure you are held back, given less rights then any one else. And you are a traitor to your own Gay community for such support.

If you're gay then you better damn well support someone who supports you and in this Presidential campaign there is only one candidate who supports you: Hillary Clinton