Corporatocratization

Today the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Comcast in a suit against their restriction of bandwidth for specific websites in breach of a widely-held belief among internet users of "net neutrality". The NY Times reported that the Appellate Court found that the FCC had no legal recourse to restrict internet provider's own restrictions of their networks. Users of BitTorrent sites, YouTube and Hulu can expect slower download times in their future and, once the Comcast takeover of NBC is complete, the inevitable slowing of content downloaded from competing network's websites. The real bitch of it is that such an action on the part of Comcast would be completely within the scope of the legal precedent set by the Appellate Court's ruling. Net Neutrality takes a nose-dive. Next stop, paying more for a "high-download" account! Go fuck yourself, Comcast.