A further review of how Comcast’s net neutrality agreements have changed over time shows another interesting tidbit Comcast removed a “no paid prioritization” contract from its net neutrality webpage on the very same time that the Federal Communications Commission published its initial plan to repeal net neutrality rules.
Notice how the popular pledge contains no promise reported to paid prioritization, one of the three important activities stopped by the current net neutrality rules.Blocking and throttling are the others.
Parts of Comcast’s net neutrality comment changed from agreements about what it will do in the future to reports about what it does in the present. While the Comcast webpage used to say that it “won’t” block or throttle lawful Internet content, it now says that “We do not block, slow down or distinguish against lawful content.”
Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson also detailed Comcast’s contemporary net neutrality guarantees in a blog post last week. Though he said that “Comcast does not and will not block, throttle, or distinguish against lawful content,” he made no obligations related to paid prioritization. Watson implemented a link to Comcast’s customer policies, which also makes no pledge concerning paid prioritization.
The Comcast spokesperson is still emphasizing that the company has “no plans” to enter into paid prioritization concessions. But having no current plans to do something and ensuring to not do it at all are two different things.
Comcast’s net neutrality page also no longer holds the promise that the company’s “Internet Essentials program will make the Internet more accessible to low-income families.” Internet Essentials is a $10-per-month Internet plan for poor classes that the US government ordered Comcast to create as a condition of its acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011.
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