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BitTorrent was attacked by content owners
Nope. It was Comcast lawyers, and it was the traffic they didn't want to see. In short, BitTorrent was a way of circumventing very slow upstream speeds of the day. The service providers wanted to keep it so they were the source of content, not individual users (aside from just e-mail). Don't let's pretend it was Comcast, in their zeal to be good citizens, that was policing the Internet against copyright infringement.
Again, for the fourth time, it is not up to the FCC to SET policy
and unilaterally reclassify internet service providers. It is up to
congress to do so.
I don't much care if Congress has to put an end to this level of corruption, but you are simply not getting that the policy had already been set, in 1906. I repeated this four times. It was **Congress** that mandated net (telecom net) neutrality in 1906, and then more specifically in 1910, and it was this neutrality that allowed the Internet to flourish, beginning in the 1980s.
Conversely, it was the **FCC** that took the shortcut of allowing the highly competitive ISPs, in the dialup era, to be classified under Title I, as just any other kind of service that operated over the telephone lines. After all, the monopoly service involved here, the dialup line, was already Title II. Why layer one Title II service on top of another? Mind you, this allowed anti-competitive walled gardens like AOL to exist. It was only **Title II telephone lines** that permitted the marketplace to discard such walled gardens.
Address this point, John, if you must continue. Address the fact that with broadband, the ISP had become the same monopoly-to-households service that was previously filled by a Title II telephone line. Address the fact that this technology change circumvented the policy, established in 1906, that telecom service was guaranteed to be neutral. Address the point that highly competitive ISP service, made possible by Title II telephone lines, suddenly became almost entirely a monopoly service. Address the way Internet access would be allowed to look like a gatekeeper MVPD, if our crooked FCC Chairman gets his way.