Comcast Plays 'Dirty Pool'

I think this story has merit since we're the home of Comcast (for better or worse) and everyone who uses the internet will be effected by the bellow story.

FULL STORY LINK at Portfolio.com
The F.C.C. had a hearing on Net Neutrality and Comcast's role in singling out and slowing down data packets from bit-torrentz and other peer to peer technologies. Comcast bussed people in to fill up the room at the hearings but they were not employees, instead they were people given cash right off the street to sit in the room. This left legitimate people who wished to air their ideas and thoughts at the hearing outside in the cold.

By now your eyes are glazing over, so let me define a few terms:

Net Neutrality: The idea that everyone gets the same level/speed of internet service, no matter what they send over email, bit torrentz or have on their websites.

Data Packets: Information passed along the 'tubes' of the internet, pictures, text, email... everything.

Bit-Torrentz: Instead of downloading an entire file, BitTorrent breaks a file into chunks and distributes them among several participating users.

Peer-to-Peer: My computer to your computer.

Comcast has violated the very idea of Net Neutrality by limiting the speed/level of service specific types of information get on their broadband network. This sets a president that telecoms can pick and choose what information will get preference in the future. Advocates of Net Neutrality are fighting to keep all information free of this kind of censorship.