Comcast: Our Policies Don't Discriminate

Comcast filed comments with the FCC claiming that it doesn’t violate net neutrality principles by slowing down traffic to bandwidth-hungry peer-to-peer sites, MediaPost reports. The company claims instead that it does so based on objective factors without considering content or the identity of users–an argument we find to be more than slightly deceptive.

“Comcast’s policies simply are not discriminatory,” the company said in an 81-page document filed this week, according to the report. “Comcast uses purely objective criteria that focus on the effects that all protocols have on network congestion and, correspondingly, its customers’ use of the Internet.”

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