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What worries me more than anything is that if Comcast is allowed to form network traffic, who gets to set the rules? They could easily form traffic to allow faster access to advertisers websites or they could charge websites to be on the "preferred" list. What if they started charging customers different rates depending on the sites or protocols they wanted to use? I'm sure that the poor network engineer wasn't really thinking about this when he opened this can of worms but that's what could come out of this.

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