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The central claim behind Comcast& #39;s long holy war against #NetNeutrality 
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This was obviously bullshit all along, but all doubt was erased in 2015, when a set of leaked memos from Comcast management affirmed that "network congestion" is a pretence for charging customers to use the service they are already paying for.
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Nevertheless, @AjitPaiFCC cited this "congestion" as justification for his slaughter of Net Neutrality, an accomplishment he was only able to pull off by pretending that millions of comments from fake/stolen identities were "evidence" for his case:
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The shills who cheered on Pai& #39;s cheating have spun the pandemic as evidence for the value of network discrimination, claiming that the killing of Net Neutrality incentivized investment in ISPs& #39; networks (despite a sharp DECREASE in investment).
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As @KarlBode writes, the pandemic is the best evidence yet that the claims of network congestion are absolute self-serving bullshit. After all, when Comcast lifted their bandwidth caps they did NOT experience the network collapse they warned us of.
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The telcoms sector knew they& #39;d be pilloried if they surprise-billed locked-down Americans for exceeding their caps, so they eliminated them, and...everything was fine. Almost as though the only reason for the caps was to gouge Americans.
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Big Telco shills have a way to spin this: they say that the caps exist to allow for "price differentiation" that allows light internet users to buy cheaper packages - but if that was so, you& #39;d expect your relatives who only check email once/day to get a $3/month plan.
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No such plan is in evidence. Instead: "Everybody pays a high price for broadband in America. Again, with with a few regional exceptions, because it& #39;s a broken, monopolized market."
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