Those of you with Comcast might be interested in this:<br><br><a href="http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/19/comcast/">http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/10/19/comcast/</a><br><br>For those of you that don't have Comcast, what one
<br>company does others might follow. Comcast has been<br>less than forthcoming about its activities, and was dug<br>out by the Associated Press.<br><br>The head of SBC, and later AT&T, mumbled a couple<br>of years ago that he didn't see why people should be
<br>able to use "his" fibers to put competitive services on.<br>In that case phone service like Vonage.<br><br>While companies like Comcast are trying to snow<br>Congress in to thinking there is no need for net neutrality
<br>legislation, clearly there is. The alternative is to let<br>outfits like Comcast do for the Internet what it and <br>DirecTV have done for TV - just a sea of ads, with the not<br>so subtle hint you might want to buy some premium
<br>services if you want to actually watch any programming.<br><br>With the Internet we might end up paying for premium<br>services just to stay where we are now. Otherwise <br>Comcast might just want to make your life miserable.
<br>And don't forget that it is a monopoly in many of the<br>areas it serves.<br><br> -Bob<br><br>