Net Neutrality Groups Press FCC

This practice is one of the concerns among the Net Neutrality crowd since it amounts to companies, like in the situation with Comcast and BitTorrent, deciding what type of content and traffic gets priority. The fear is that ISPs have incentive to abuse their power.

"There's nothing reasonable about the way Comcast is secretly censoring what its customers can do on the Internet," said Marvin Ammori, general counsel of Free Press. "Comcast is using Web filtering technologies similar to those used in China to censor the Internet. This egregious violation of Net Neutrality must be addressed by the FCC immediately."

Scott warns that a slap on the wrist or failure to act quickly will not send a strong enough message to ISPs about interfering with their customers' transmissions.

"The FCC must send a stern warning to any phone or cable company that would try to control our Internet experience," Scott said. "The longer the FCC waits to punish Comcast and Verizon, the more these companies will invest in technologies to censor and manipulate what we can do online and over the public airwaves. Censorship and blocking our access to the Internet should never be tolerated."