Net Neutrality and censorship

Back in the 80's DOJ forced AT&T to split into multiple companies due to a monopoly. For a few years things in telecommunications improved. Now here we are 20 something years later and they are now starting to censor YOUR content. Say no to censorship and yes to net neutrality.
TechCrunch reports and

Why we need net neutrality: AT&T began censoring the internet tonight

by Demosthenes

Share this on Twitter - Why we need net neutrality: AT&T began censoring the internet tonight

Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 08:33:00 PM PDT

Here's whats known so far:

* Most AT&T DSL (largest ISP in the US, 15.5% of US Internet users) customers ARE currently not able to access img.4chan.org (/b/ & r9k)

*There are a few AT&T DSL users that are NOT affected. Kansas, Florida, and Ohio are where we've gotten those reports. AT&T is a megacorp made from the smaller pieces it was broken down into in the 80s- different equipment and such.

*AT&T Mobility (Cell Phones) and AT&T Uverse customers ARE NOT AFFECTED.

*It IS NOT a DNS issue. Affected people have tried OpenDNS with no success.

*It IS very visible on a traceroute. It drops within the AT&T network.

*It DOES NOT affect AT&Ts Tier 1 backbone (major bandwidth backbone in US).

*It DOES NOT affect other servers on 4chan.

*People HAVE called customer service (allegedly) and confirmed a block, but agents have denied further info.

• Demosthenes's diary :: ::
• 
  

This isn't just some small website, either. It is a very large web community, and AT&T has decided that it has the right to arbitrarily keep its customers from accessing it with no explanation. A web forum with over a hundred million posts drops off the net for over 10% of the US - no message, just a timeout when trying to access it.

If I pay for internet access, I expect exactly that - access to the internet. Not just part of the internet, especially not the part of the internet that some paternal figure thinks is OK for me to get to. Not just websites. What scares me the most is if ISPs get away with this sort of thing and start pushing for payment in order to access domains outside of a set list (or tiered content access in general). They've already started this a little bit with their treatment of bittorrent traffic.

small question: would it be out of place to put breaking in the title?