----- From: shane_digital Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 Subject: Comcast, Frontier, Time Warner Cable - The End of Unlimited Internet?
Comcast, Frontier, Time Warner Cable - The End of Unlimited Internet? Thursday, September 11, 2008 by: Rich Stacel (see all articles by this author) NaturalNews) Well no sooner was Comcast busted for blocking various internet connections in a recent ruling by the FCC, now they and other cable giants such as Time Warner and Frontier are looking to place usage limits on a monthly basis. Last week, Comcast which is the second largest internet provider in the country, announced that beginning on October 1st that they would set usage limits on a monthly basis for internet usage. This is not the same as what Comcast was recently cited for by the FCC. That was for limiting specific types of connections, specifically peer to peer connections. Whether the FCC can or will do anything against these usage limits remains to be seen. Comcast has said that their cap is going to be about 250 gigabytes (gb) per month, which they say is generous and will only affect about 1% of current users who are hogging up bandwidth and slowing the connection down for the majority of other users. Critics state that Comcast is taking the wrong approach and that instead of upgrading their systems to easily handle the load that customers are paying for, their choice is to not spend anymore money and place limits on how much their customers can use the internet. On August 1st, Frontier communication changed its policy as well and set usage limits of 5 gb per month. In June, Time Warner Cable also launched a program in Beaumont, Texas that places usage limits on users of between 5 and 40 gb. In its announcement, Comcast states "To put its monthly limit of 250 GB in perspective, the company said that to consume that much bandwidth a customer would have to send 50 million e-mails, 62,500 songs, download 125 standard-definition movies or upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos." Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas: "...When the customers would exceed the limit" he said Comcast would call to alert them. In most cases, the customer would voluntarily moderate his or her usage in response. If customers didn't cut back on usage, Comcast reserved the right to suspend service. Douglas said the only difference in the policy is that customers now know that the threshold is 250 GB per month. In a previous statement, Comcast said that more than two violations within a six month period could get a customer's account suspended. Article Continues: http://www.naturalnews.com/024144.html Related: ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Internet Founder Suggests Censorship of Online 'Disinformation' Internet Founder Suggests Censorship of Online 'Disinformation' Thursday, September 18, 2008 by: Neil McLaughlin (NaturalNews) The head of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Sir Tim Berners-Lee has decided that there is too much "disinformation" on the internet regarding things like the danger of vaccines. Thus he proposes that free speech should now be censored using a rating system overseen by the same group of corporate cronies, pharmaceutical giants, war mongers and fiat bankers that have been robbing, poisoning and pilfering the world for decades. Of course, those same corporations themselves will maintain their own rights to free speech, which gives them the ability to promote outright lies under First Amendment protection (such as Nike claiming that it does not employ child slave labor overseas). While the proposal for internet censorship ironically came alongside a claim that "grassroots innovation is what makes the web great", it appears that grassroots companies themselves will not be part of the consortium that doles out the ratings. Rating System In order to discredit web sites that disseminate truth, Berners-Lee (who apparently kept his maiden name after getting married) has proposed to the BBC a rating system to "vet" websites with a "label for trustworthiness" once proven "reliable". This will allow giant multinational corporations to discredit websites that reveal the truth about their dangerous products, giving them low ratings. This would be done to quell the rise of "cult thinking" online. The next step will likely be to block any sites with low ratings altogether, killing the grassroots at their roots. While it is almost certain that web sites such as Natural News will receive poor ratings, the author can testify based on personal experience that NN deserves closer to a perfect score. The author started practicing a holistic lifestyle in 1997, and had 8 years experience by 2005 when he became an avid reader of the Health Ranger's articles on Natural News. Nearly every article from Mike Adams has been validated by the author's own experience. However, as Natural News is largely anti-corporate and promotes actual health freedom (i.e. hurts the profits of giant corporations who will have complete control of the new rating system), it would be unlikely to receive high ratings by the Fascist review board. 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