The Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped up its criticism of traffic shaping practices by Comcast and others with a new initiative aimed at broadband customers.
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The EFF isn't happy about this either. Hindering Internet traffic shifts what had been a neutral environment of people choosing what they want to participate in online to a model where the ISP treats its network as a chokepoint. That would run counter to the design of the Internet, and the freedom that has led to the development of useful applications and services available to anyone who can connect to them.
They have added a little whipped cream to their sundae of complaints regarding the business of interfering with how people use their Internet connections.
Comcast or others could use this power to arbitrarily determine what their customers can and cannot do with the service they purchase.
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