Broad coalition demands the FCC enforce network neutrality

 
Many consider Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent traffic -- by forging TCP RST packets -- an egregious violation of network neutrality principles.

This is the Internet without Network Neutrality

News.com reports:

Members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition and Internet scholars from Harvard, Yale and Stanford law schools filed a petition and complaint with the Federal Communications Commission Thursday in response to claims that Comcast is blocking some kinds of peer-to-peer traffic.

The complaint comes after the Associated Press discovered, based on its own testing, that content was blocked on several Comcast broadband connections using the peer-to-peer filing sharing network BitTorrent. Other Comcast users have also complained that their BitTorrent content has been blocked.

In their petition, the groups claim that Comcast is violating the FCC's Internet Policy Statement, which essentially states that consumers are entitled to access all applications, services and content of their choice...

The Internet -- the greatest democratic publishing platform ever invented -- hangs in the balance. Will Congress and its lobbyists allow the few remaining telcos and cable companies to act as gatekeepers? Will they decide which "channels" (web sites) we can visit? Which applications we can run?

Put simply, the would-be monopolists want to turn the Internet into cable TV. Don't let it happen. Go to Save the Internet now -- and make your voice heard.