[quote name='epobirs']If DoS attacks were originating from CAG's IP, I'd have no problem with it. I would expect the situation to be resolved quickly once it was determined what was behind the attacks. If Cheapy's server was zombified the guy controlling it would likely try to push malware on site visitors, too.
The world is a rough place. Wear a helmet and don't act all butthurt when stuff happens that amounts to nothing more than mild inconvenience.[/QUOTE]
It's not the mild inconveniences I'm worried about (a traffic jam is a mild inconvenience). Something like this is only a showing of what a company could really do, given a motive, an agenda, and the power ($) to do so.
Similar situation with Amazon removing the digital copies of 1984 from their database. People were not in-arms about losing a book, but about the principle of the circumstance and the Big Brotherness, poor judgment, and distasteful action Amazon took to remedy "the problem."
The Internet is the final frontier and the only technology that gives a two-way forum. It is empowering to me that I can say this here and know that you can respond. All other forms of communication deny regular people a voice. Remember, radio was taken over by the government "in the interest of the public" because people weren't able to take care of it themselves (indeed, it was what the people wanted), but one look at radio now will show you a near-dead audience and a cesspool of McDonald's commercials, the 100 most digestible songs on repeat, and a torrent of obnoxious car salesmen shouting at you. If it weren't for radio having a captive audience, I'd said it was six feet under.
It's no secret that the huge telecommunications companies are spending record amounts on lobbyists and trying harder than ever to eliminate Net Neutrality. Look at China. There's a new saying over there that goes "the Great Firewall of China was built with American bricks." I don't have to tell you that AT&T's recent perversion reeks of censorship because you already know that.
Blocking 4chan doesn't directly affect either of us (I hope). So, other isolated circumstances appear now and then, and, still, neither of us are affected. However, AT&T has its foot in the door, so to speak, and situations pop up more frequently. Now it won't be such a big deal if another ISP does the same thing. It's worth taking serious. I hope you'll take the time to honestly think about it and reconsider Net Neutrality as more than a silly notion.
I won't belittle your intelligence by listing all that could happen under an omnipotent ISP because, again, you've already thought a possible implication without even meaning to.
with their Investor relations contacts [link]". 
