U.S. FCC Hatches New Broadband/Internet Rules

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Originally Posted by Beck38

With the changes in the classification this week by the FCC, they'll be rung up again (heavy fines), and maybe they'll try a run at the courts again. 'Traffic Shaping' is now expressly illegal.

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Comcast's current traffic shaping scheme would probably be legal since its agnostic on the protocols. If they were to specifically only shape a certain type of traffic, then they would get in trouble. But the current system only throttles you if you have too much usage in general and are doing it during high traffic periods.