[ale] FCC says Comcast lied about traffic shaping

[Charles Shapiro]

And $99 billion is a lot of money.  (
http://money.cnn.com/2000/01/10/deals/aol_warner/ )

-- CHS
(Currently sitting at a desk in the very heart of the International Monetary
Gangster Computer Conspiracy!)

On 4/24/08, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 13:26, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Watson, Keith R.
> > <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > > FCC says Comcast lied about traffic shaping
> >
> > There are (at least) two sides to this...
> >
> > 1) The FCC *needs* to look tough these days as Congress is eyeballing
> > them.   A new administration is on the horizon, and FCC jobs must be
> > preserved. ;-)
>
>
> In other words, the FCC will have to resume doing the required work
> of its charter by protecting the free speech rights of U.S. citizens from
> the greed of sociopathic corporate monoliths and monopolies.
>
>
> > 2) Given that Comcast is a huge, highly distributed, organization.  It
> > makes sense (to me) that an executive testifying to the FCC in
> > Washington D.C. probably doesn't really know what the Comcast
> > engineers in Tulsa or Omaha are really doing or not doing.   It might
> > just be possible that the intent was there to remove the traffic
> > shaping, but the grunt engineers hadn't gotten the maintenance/change
> > approval to actually remove the equipment.
>
>
> We might be much more inclined to attribute the Commiecast corporate
> lies to simple "oversight" if they had ever been the slightest bit
> forthright
> with their customers or the public or the FCC about their bandwidth
> choking abuses.  Ever since the Electronic Frontiers Foundation caught
> Commiecast secretly cheating their customers the company has done nothing
> but
> issue a long string of lies and denials and accusatory, fraudulent
> justifications about their censorship activities.  The only "excuse" here
> is
> that such endless lies are to be expected - as the foundation of all
> marketing, fraud is integral to the nature of the corporate beast. It is in
> their sociopathic self interests to lie, cheat, and steal - even spy,
> torture
> and murder if the stakes are right - without any concern for the
> consequences
> of their actions on anyone else anywhere. That is the operational
> requirement
> on which the common totalitarian (aka communist) corporate charter is
> founded.
>
> ...but I progress... ;-)
>
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> >[snip]
>
>
>
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