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Re:Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving in America by njorth on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @12:02PM (#10784252)
Broadband access is very much a freedom thing if Comcast is your only option.

I live in one of America's wealthiest cities and the undisputed tech capital of the east coast, yet finding a decent ISP is difficult bordering on impossible.

There's exactly one good ISP in my city called netBlazr, but they don't service my neighborhood. So we get Comcast instead: bandwidth rates approaching a tenth of advertised speeds, outright throttling for certain services, cheap hardware with limited firmware, ubiquitous surveillance, and no legal recourse at all.

Freedom.

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Re:Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving in America by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @01:08PM (#10784627)
Uhhh... we get RCN over here in Somerville...
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Re:Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving in America by njorth on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:05PM (#10784974)
RCN's on my radar for sure, but XMission is the standard against which I'm comparing services.

What assurance is there that RCN won't pull any bullshit like blocking SMTP or throttling Tor?

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Re:Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving in America by javajosh on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:03PM (#10784962)
A dearth of broadband options in a major american city doesn't seem like a freedom issue!

How much bandwidth does free speech require?

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Re:Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving in America by njorth on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @02:42PM (#10785175)
At least 100 kb/s upload, assuming you don't edit torrc.
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