YSK: Comcast is enacting a 1TB data cap limit beginning November 1st

Honestly I'd be fine with data caps. If they capped it at 10 TB a month.

I don't even use half a TB a month (near that though), but I know that given a reason - say, a great Steam sale - I might. They're billing the cap as "more than people need".. well if that's the case, Comcast, why not give people more? If the cap is coming down and it's "more than people need" - and they're right about that - then what's the point of the cap? It's essentially not limiting anything. Their whole sell is "nothing changes for 99% of people", and again that's true, but if that's the case that means the cap is only there to impose new fines on a service that is the exact same as before.

That's fucked up. There's no added value to anyone by this new policy except to Comcast. It does not prevent the system from being overloaded, and data is not a finite resource like water or power (which they compare themselves to... while simultaneously avoiding actual distinction, because then net neutrality would win).

It's scummy as fuck.

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