Stop Comcast from blocking Netflix
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce this week regardless of whether he’ll fulfill President Obama’s promise to protect the open World wide web and Net Neutrality. Julius said, “Don’t let Comcast block Netflix or other online innovators for their own profit! Support the strongest Net Neutrality protections possible — and keep Obama’s promise.” Along with the New York Times noted very last night
Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage.
Level 3, which helps to deliver Netflix’s streaming movies, said Comcast had effectively erected a tollbooth that “threatens the open Internet,” and indicated that it would seek government intervention…
The dispute highlighted the growing importance of Internet video delivery — an area that some people say needs to be monitored more closely by regulators.
Net neutrality, which posits that Internet traffic should be free of any interference from network operators like Comcast, is thought to be on the December agenda of the Federal Communications Commission.
“With this action, Comcast demonstrates the risk of a ‘closed’ Internet, where a retail broadband Internet access provider decides whether and how their subscribers interact with content,” Thomas C. Stortz, the chief legal officer for Level 3, said in a statement Monday…
…under pressure from Comcast, “Level 3 agreed to the terms, under protest, in order to ensure customers did not experience any disruptions,” Mr. Stortz said…Mr. Stortz implied that Comcast was taking the action to impair companies that compete with its own cable and Internet services.
If this new fee is not paid, Comcast will block Netflix. Signal the petition telling the FCC to quit this type of abuse — and shield Net Neutrality.
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