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Breaking the Net

2011-08-05 21:06:50.680464+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Anti-news: Unscrupulous "Internet" providers are running web traffic through proxies and doing evil things to search results. Apparently this goes beyond Comcast's Comcastic policy of breaking DNS, to actively using proxies to alter web traffic.

In my perfect world we'd be able to legally define "Internet" to preclude shenanigans like this and turn the FTC and civil litigation on the entities which claim to be offering "Internet" but are actually offering some sort of online service which happens to have a broken Internet gateway.

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#Comment Re: made: 2011-08-05 21:07:27.910639+00 by: Dan Lyke

The guilty parties: