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Internet Freedom Update-6
08/01/08
FCC orders (86K pdf) Comcast to cease wrongfully discriminating against certain types of Internet traffic1.
Net neutrality principles prevent Telecom, Cable, and other internet service providers from wrongfully preferring some Internet data packets over others—they can't act like a postal worker deciding which first class letters to deliver to you and when to deliver them.
Web: Save the Internet
Blog: Washington Times, FCC vote backs Net neutrality
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1. Comcast was throttling certain types of P2P traffic, typically related to bit torrents, a distributed file sharing protocol for transmitting a large numbers of data packets.
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