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- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -9/+451ATT = It may be time to break up your little company again.
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -1/+300Customers: We May Not Stay With AT&T High Speed.
- spudfrog, on 01/10/2008, -6/+296AT&T, meet our good friend Digg. He doesn't like people messing with his internet.
- Groovemaster, on 01/10/2008, -17/+194All part and parcel of the US government's latest war... The War on Thinking Americans.
- manicallday, on 01/10/2008, -2/+166I need to be a CEO. I wouldn't bother with this. I would be too busy trying to get more customers so I can make more money. Rather than spending money trying to find ways to screw my customers. Take that same money and hook up your network.
- nymphetamine, on 01/10/2008, -5/+163Wow, I was about to switch to their DSL service too. Good thing I didn't.
- Frostman3D, on 01/10/2008, -3/+132I won't use AT&T anyhow, these are the same people that spy on us for the NSA, ***** them!
- jkbowman, on 01/10/2008, -3/+118As if high-speed didn't already suck in the USA.
- deadseksy, on 01/10/2008, -0/+89AT&T should be in my area soon. So I'll have them and Comcast to choose over? Sounds like our presidential candidates every 4 years...
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 01/10/2008, -0/+78"We May Not Stay Net Neutral"
In other words, "We will not be neutral unless the government forces us to be. And even then we know people." - forceflow2, on 01/10/2008, -17/+94Don't worry, Ron Paul will...oh wait....
- DavidGX, on 01/10/2008, -12/+76Net Neutrality, come on people, really. We need it, sooner rather than later.
- zombiedepot, on 01/10/2008, -0/+54They wiretapped their customers, can't say I'm surprised they sunk even lower.
- Charlotte_Web, on 01/10/2008, -1/+46I place my money on the hackers and coders to outmaneuver AT&T at every step of the way if they start filtering the internet.
- kgtech, on 01/10/2008, -1/+41I want to see how ATT spins this to their customers. I would guess that it would go along the line of "ATT will make premium content faster and easier to download for everyone!" Then in 2-3 months find a way to start charging for the "premium" content like Hulu. Watch.
- shad0walker, on 01/10/2008, -3/+38I say we start a collection to get AT&T a big truck so they don't have to do this.
- weeeezzll, on 01/10/2008, -1/+36If they are willing to spend large sums of money on software that will yield little benefit to them or their bottom line then they must be under an enormous amount of pressure from the MPAA and RIAA to do this...
- h3lx, on 01/10/2008, -3/+35This goddamn apathetic defeatist mentality is pandemic. Grow a ***** pair of balls and let's go kick some ***** corporate executive ass.
- DavidYeah, on 01/10/2008, -8/+38Ron Paul won't do *****. He's against any kind of government intervention. When the internet is so filtered that it is basically known as America Online Gold, folks like Ron Paul will be telling us how the free market won.
- versualize, on 01/10/2008, -0/+29Why is it so hard for CEOs to be decent CEOs when it seems so simple. Don't do things that would piss off your customers.
- pwndrew, on 01/10/2008, -4/+30Doesn't Comcast already do this?
- RealityCheque, on 01/10/2008, -2/+27Not everyone has a choice for provider where they live.
- weeeezzll, on 01/10/2008, -0/+24Exactly! We at one point lead the world in internet adoption and technology, and now Japan has 100Mbit connections as their "normal' service and is phasing out 10Mbit service. If you can get 10Mbit service in your area of the US, it is likely touted as Premium service that cost even more.
- OMGIAMTHEMAN, on 01/10/2008, -2/+24douche-baggery is pretty much synonymous with how I understand most anti-trust offenses.
- P5ycHo, on 01/10/2008, -0/+20High-Speed? Where?
- Sirocco, on 01/10/2008, -0/+20http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System_divestitu ...
Educate yourself, please. AT&T has been quietly reconstituting itself behind our backs. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+20Guess dialup would be the equivalent of a third-party candidate....
- h3lx, on 01/10/2008, -0/+20You direct traffic to sites where you're paying for ad space, and you limit customer results to content you're supplying, provided by clients paying you big bucks... essentially, we're witnessing the immaculate conception of another middleman.
-Isn't Comcast about to get hammered for something akin to this? - inactive, on 01/10/2008, -0/+19I guess the idea here is to screw everyone out of bandwidth so they don't have to upgrade the network.
- TwwIX, on 01/10/2008, -13/+32Even more reason to leave this country.
- asauterChicago, on 01/10/2008, -0/+18lol, it didn't work the first time because no one wanted to switch their service away from AT&T. Trust me, I worked for a CLEC and we gave better, cheaper, and faster internet service (at the time) than AT&T. I would talk to someone who would be complaining about AT&T and ask them why they don't just switch their service, the response 99% of the time was "Well, I hate AT&T, but it works, I don't trust all these other guys out there".
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -2/+18The FCC gives at&t hand jobs, thats how they are able to take over the usa and become MA bell again
- Niteryder, on 01/10/2008, -0/+16I think AT&T needs to seriously remove some people from their executive staff. I think also AT&T seriously needs to worry about their customer base and the fact that Verizon FIOS is looking very attractive...AT&T stay out of politics or get out of the Internet business....
- teh_techie, on 01/10/2008, -0/+16It won't matter... if the content is passing through their pipe before it gets to you (which a large percentage does), then that same filter ***** is going to apply to you!
- ChuckIT, on 01/10/2008, -0/+16the internets is serious business
- All4not, on 01/10/2008, -0/+15I have AT&T and left the only other provider in my area, Comcast. If AT&T starts filtering, then I don't have a choice between a non-filtering broadband ISP.
- Teku, on 01/10/2008, -0/+14I cannot even express how mad I am at the thought of this.
I think the American consumer has no choice left, we must utterly destroy NBC-Universal and then proceeded to AT&T. I do not think AT&T could survive the hit to their subscriber base if all file sharers left. I am not sure they have a firm grasp of how many people share copyrighted content on the internet. - nicejai, on 01/10/2008, -1/+14This will do nothing. The only thing it will do is accelerate the practice and adoption of encrypting traffic.
Sure they may enjoy some short-term monetary benefits now by selling prioritized bandwidth and content-filtering services, but it's not a long-term plan I'd rely on if I were CEO. - TubeDigger, on 01/10/2008, -0/+13Stop this ***** States! if you get filtering that will influence our country and other countries. That will mess up the greatest human interactive tool ever created and license it and toll and tax us. Don't let it happen, that would be just one more reason the world shakes their head in shame of what your country is becoming. When are the people going to do something, i guess an American who fights for his freedoms is a false stereotype a media mirage. Sorry for the harch words but u realllly have to STAND UP!
- TomTruelle, on 01/10/2008, -3/+16While I dont live in your country, i completely agree. Plus, the last thing we need is a ton of american border jumpers.
- h3lx, on 01/10/2008, -1/+13I can't wait to see Lou Dobb's piece on this...
- VitriolAndAngst, on 01/10/2008, -0/+11Me too.
It really would save me a LOT of money to consolidate with AT&T. I'm already with BellSouth because I had a choice between BellSouth DSL or NO DSL. WTF am I supposed to do? Spend a lot more for a company that may one day say; "Sure, we've been removing anything critical of the government -- what of it?" - FKnight, on 01/10/2008, -0/+11Except all of the "other, better" ISPs get their Internet access from AT&T.
- snatchmstr, on 01/10/2008, -0/+11Amen
- fluxion, on 01/10/2008, -0/+11i think that's the point of forceflow2's post
- metamorfoza, on 01/10/2008, -0/+10link to the actual NYTimes blog
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/att-and-o ... - DavidYeah, on 01/10/2008, -0/+10They're doing their best to get more customers, screwing those customers, and then spend millions on advertising campaigns and public relations when stuff like this comes out. I've got five bucks saying that you'll soon seen AT&T ads telling them how they're helping protect your children from illegal piracy.
- secrity, on 01/10/2008, -0/+10Or a fleet of backhoes, aka "one armed cable locaters"
- MisterKen, on 01/10/2008, -0/+10Thanks Cicconi! Now I don't need to spend any time seeing if that bundle you guys offer is worth while. Wow, hours saved. Thanks again!
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -4/+14What absolutely baffles me is how America transitioned from being a nation of pioneers, with an attitude of "you're going to screw me? well screw you! I'll find a better way to do what you're doing!" to "oh no the big bad evil company is going to screw me! save me mr. government!"
There will always need to be some level of interaction and interference from the Government with commerce, to protect the rights of citizens. Why in the world this should extend to forcing a company to provide a service it doesn't wish to provide is a mystery to me. I can only assume that innovation is dying in America, and too many would rather Uncle Sam solved their problems for them than forge a new solution with the creativity, moxie and stubborn determination that made American industry great. -
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