'Landmark' decision more of a moral victory

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7 commentsFriday, August 1, 2008

FCC Declares Comcast's Filtering Illegal

'Landmark' decision more of a moral victory

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By Guest (WPN reader) - Sat, 12/06/2008 - 12:11

COMCAST Blocks SMTP from DHCP Netblocks

The latest "problem" is Comcast blocking SMTP from DHCP Netblocks that supply dynamic IP addresses to their customers. See http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL191876 for an example. They are forcing their customers to use Comcast SMTP servers or pay for Business Class service. This is all under the banner of preventing SPAM from bots infection their customers PCs. They already have blocking processes for infected customers. Money grab plain and simple. It would be nice to see the FCC grow some backbone.

By Tony (WPN reader) - Sun, 10/12/2008 - 17:06

Comcast has now screwed up email spam filtering

I can't even send to comcast anymore. I would suggest leaving comcast and going to another email system provider.

I've add a dynamic IP range to the comcast RBL and they just remove it.

Suggestion: Don't use comcast, try Qwest or Verizons

IMTA22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net comcast 64.22.83.114 Comcast BL004 Blocked for spam.

By Charles Douglas Wehner (WPN reader) - Mon, 08/04/2008 - 13:10

Comcast's Filtering Illegal

There is no net neutrality.

Heavy censorship already exists on the Web, particularly when people are posting articles on the Newsgroups that challenge government "policies", such as the invasions of Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

When politicians get busy creating an "Internet Freedom and Preservation Act", it generally has a platitude as its title, but is intended to deliver the exact OPPOSITE.

"This is (Internet) Preservation Week. It's like what you have to do when you run for office - you've got to PRESERVE". --- George 'Dubya' Bush.

Charles Douglas Wehner

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sat, 08/09/2008 - 18:35

Comcast filtering Illegal

We need more public input to let government know what we want and they should realize that we are the government. What we say should, go in a Canadian Society. We need government to take troops out of foreign countries and start protecting our citizens first and when they can say there are no more drugs cartels, no more gambling casinos, and no more poverty then they could ask Canadians if we should help another country.

Ask the people in those countries if they don't think we should clean up our act before making judgments against their ways of governing. If they had a look at what is really happening in Canada do you think they would want us putting our views on their people. They would surely tell us to go home and look after our citizens first.

By Jim Wilshireford (WPN reader) - Mon, 08/04/2008 - 10:50

LOL

The FCC is like a Doberman with no teeth! LOL, real scary LMAO!!

www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

By Guest (WPN reader) - Mon, 08/04/2008 - 09:58

Stuck with ComCast

While happy for this decision, I grow weary everyday that passes befor the rightwing idealogs at the FCC and their bosses at the White House find some way to undermine the Net Neutrality laws already in place.

As for Comcast doing what they did and/or still will do I had some issues back a couple of months ago when I was trying to get on gregpalast.com, mediamatters.org, and goleft.tv where it took forever for these sites to load up but other sites like google.com, yahoo.com, and foxnews.com (which I check only to see what crap they made up on a given day) would load up instantly.....

I used to have Insight but Comcast bought them out. I never asked for Comcast, I never wanted them but because I have my cable and phone and interenet packaged together..... I can't afford to go in three seperate directions as Comcast is the only provider of all three at the same time.

We need to save the last hope of the truth being found or seen by supporting any legislation that strengthens Net Neutrality laws!

captfoster - see me at mmfa.org as well