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Re:Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manuf... by shalmanese on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:01AM (#6222251)
Can't you use that exact same logic to argue that Comcast has spent billions of dollars laying cable into the ground and that it's completely reasonable for them to not allow content that doesn't fit within the goals of their "platform" like netflix traffic?
Re:Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manuf... by thrownaway2424 on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:23AM (#6222312)
That comparison seems weird because the relationships aren't the same. Comcast's customers are the people who pay for Comcast service at their homes and businesses. If Comcast favors its own content over other content, and they have a local monopoly on internet service, then they are using their monopoly to abuse their customers.

Neither Microsoft, nor owners of Windows Phone handsets, are customers of YouTube. The only people who are customers of YouTube are people who pay to have their videos hosted there.

Re:Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manuf... by nknighthb on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:20AM (#6222300)
Is YouTube purporting to provide me with Internet access or otherwise operate as infrastructure? I must have missed that.

If Comcast wants to provide a digital network that provides connectivity between selected entities (such as end-users and companies that have elected to pay Comcast additional fees), that's fine. But they don't get to call it "Internet". They don't get to pass it off as something different from the AOL and CompuServe of old.

Re:Google blocks Windows Phone YouTube app again, for “manuf... by kyrra on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:12AM (#6222285)
Comcast and many cable ISPs have a monopoly for high speed Internet in many parts if the US. YouTube is not forced on anyone due to where they live, and there are plenty of alternatives to YouTube out there that you are free to use.