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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsComcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal
Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repealThree-year-old "no paid prioritization" pledge was suddenly removed.
JON BRODKIN - 11/29/2017, 12:01 PM
We wrote earlier this week about how Comcast has changed its promises to uphold net neutrality by pulling back from previous statements that it won't charge websites or other online applications for fast lanes.
Comcast spokesperson Sena Fitzmaurice has been claiming that we got the story wrong. But a further examination of how Comcast's net neutrality promises have changed over time reveals another interesting tidbitComcast deleted a "no paid prioritization" pledge from its net neutrality webpage on the very same day that the Federal Communications Commission announced its initial plan to repeal net neutrality rules.
Starting in 2014, the webpage, corporate.comcast.com/openinternet/open-net-neutrality, contained this statement: "Comcast doesn't prioritize Internet traffic or create paid fast lanes."
That statement remained on the page until April 26 of this year, according to page captures from the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.
But on April 27, the paid prioritization pledge was nowhere to be found on that page and remains absent now.
What changed? It was on April 26 that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced the first version of his plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. Since then, Pai has finalized his repeal plan, and the FCC will vote to drop the rules on December 14.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-deleted-net-neutrality-pledge-the-same-day-fcc-announced-repeal/
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Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Nov 2017
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Bradshaw3
(7,520 posts)1. Well drumpf is getting some of his wins with this and the tax scam
and the American people and our democracy are losing.
workinclasszero
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