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Posted By JSilver 9 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsCox Communications, the nation's third-largest cable company, has unveiled a plan to monitor and slow Internet content it deems unimportant. With this news, Cox joins the ranks of other Internet providers willing to tempt legal fate by getting between customers and their access to the free-flowing Web.
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MisterX9 months, 3 weeks ago
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I fired many people/companies who didn't think my interests were important enough for their attention (i.e. doctors, contractors, barbers, schools, cell phone carriers, etc.). I won't have a problem firing my ISP on the same grounds. The internet sucks anymore anyway. I'm sure I'll be just as happy with Net Zero.
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xvtenchuvx9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well this seems interesting. Granted with so many websites offering pretty much the same thing these days slowing down some of the sites would organize the chaos of the internet, but who are they to say which sites should be slowed down? granted if I'm guessing correctly and not using my "big Brother" paranoia side of my brain I would assume that they would slow down scam sites, sites that give viruses, and malicious sites first. The other site would come later, but they would probably keep sites with their interests in mind at full speed, but that is just business herd the cattle where you want it to graze, get used to it we are the consumer cattle.
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And Misterx I like how you use the term "fire" like you have some power over the people whose services you use. Your "firing" probably did not effect them in anyway. You like to think you are some big power that you decide the fate of someone, but in the end you're just a small as the rest of society.-
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MisterX9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Nawww, I'm sure I didn't ruin anybody's Christmas, but I'm certain that I didn't allow them to profit from me while doing crappy work either. I won't put up with crap, if I don't have to.
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BTW, I don't remember the company, but there was an ammunition company in the US that was purchased by a company in Britain. The word got out, and enough people boycotted the product, that they were compelled to sell the company back to a US-based company.
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dwemm9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Seems that some anti-trust legislation is in order. What exactly is the advantage of combining cable, communications and internet under the same company? Other than the difficulty of paying three different bills? It just gives a conglomerate more power to conglomerate, merge and wreck other companies until "only one can survive."
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