User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-172.0.169.95-20140911071952/@comment-50.65.174.166-20140911073455

Well said. Governments generally fear the masses' free access to information. It tends to uncover a lot of stuff they would rather hide, and it makes us think. Well, hopefully most of us. But, ISPs are not here to provide us with free access to said information; they are businesses and, as such, they are here to make a profit. However, the prices for their services are way too high, the throttling of bandwidth ridiculous, and what really makes me laugh (it's an angry laugh though) is when my ISP (Shaw; I'm in Canada) sends me these buy-this-buy-that emails, and how they are upgrading their servers, routers, fiber, etc. What they fail to mention, time and again, is that they fully intend to recover all these costs by passing them to me, the consumer. So, my bill will rise, their profits will keep growing...