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A comment on Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?.

Re:Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away wi... by fezzez on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:11PM (#26897036)
It's to their detriment to do this. If this is on your Gmail, mark that email as spam. With enough people doing that, Comcast will either have to be more transparent about those emails or face the consequences of getting dinged by Gmail.
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Re:Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away wi... by arp242 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:45AM (#26898828)
One of the potential issues with this is, is that actual service emails might also end up getting blocked.
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Re:Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away wi... by thesagan on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:41PM (#26897721)
With Comcast maintaining pipes that carry traffic to Google, I wonder how a Google vs. Comcast event would look.
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Re:Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away wi... by snowwrestler on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:02AM (#26898600)
Comcast would lose. No one gives a shit about which ISP they use, but cut off their Gmail and they will be pissed.

Comcast dodged a bullet when the FCC reversed their common carrier finding. Blocking Google services is the sort of malicious content blocking that would justify re-examine that.

Comcast is also about to face a ton of new ISP competition: Starlink is expanding, and Verizon is building out their residential 5G service. My city, which only has Comcast now and never got FiOS, will be fully lit for Verizon res 5G within 2 years. Life is about to get harder for Comcast as an ISP.

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Re:Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away wi... by SteveNuts on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:04PM (#26897906)
Maybe ISPs would finally be forced to act as impartial common carriers
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